Daily Bread Dir. Ruby Challenger ( foto uit de film) Australia | 15 min.
Synopsis: In een WO II-interneringskamp in Indonesië hebben Jeanne en een groep Nederlandse vrouwen en kinderen dagelijks te maken met mishandeling, ziekte en honger. Ondertussen krijgt de geliefde witte pluizige kat van de Camp Commandant vers sappig vlees te eten …
4 oktober te zien 18.45 uur – 20.45 uur op het Lift-Off Film Festival 2018
@ LAB 111, Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam,
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Ruby Challenger is de kleindochter van Jan Ruff-O’Herne . (foto)
Ze speelt een scene na uit het kampleven van haar oma.
Dit verhaal komt voor in het boek van Jan O’Herne: Fifty years of silence
Archieftopics.
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Jan Ruff O’Herne’s two daughters always found it peculiar how much their mother hated flowers.
“Don’t get me flowers,” she’d say before Mother’s Day or her birthday. “They’re such a waste of money.”
Eileen Mitton, Jan’s eldest daughter, reflected on her mother’s disdain for flowers in an episode of ABC’s Australian Story in 2007. In retrospect, she would come to understand why her mother, who she knew had been a prisoner of war, could not stand the sight of them.
They reminded her of the first night she was raped.
The Japanese had denied Jan her name, along with all the other women. Instead, they’d come to be known as different types of flowers – perhaps just another step in the dehumanisation of women whose entire identity had been reduced to a sexual repository.
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Ruby Challenger calls her grandmother Jan a ‘strong woman’.
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https://www.mamamia.com.au/japan-comfort-women/