Against All Odds: A fact-based story of a Dutch family in Japanese concentration camps in World War II Java

When Jaan Willem Mobach (1894), his wife Johanna (1896), and their three sons, Piet, Gerard, and Jan, depart for Djokdjakarta in 1930 on the ship Indrapoera, they have no idea what awaits them. The years leading up to 1942-during which time three daughters are born-pass by in relative peace. That changes on March 8, 1942, when the Dutch East Indies fall to the Japanese. All Dutch, Indonesian Dutch, and Europeans end up in Japanese internment camps, as do many Moluccans and Chinese. In these...