Barbara ANSLOW (née REDWOOD) [1918-2019]

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Barbara
Family
Anslow
Maiden
Redwood
Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
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Barbara kept a diary covering the period 1941-1945, ie the fighting in Hong Kong, and her internment in Stanley Camp. You can read her diary online here, and also buy a copy of the printed diaries (published as Tin Hats and Rice) in the Gwulo shop.

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The interview appeared in The China Daily:

Forgive but never forget

By Zhao Xu (China Daily)

Ninety-year-old Barbara Anslow says Hong Kong represents all that is great, sad and unexpected in her life. It was where she bade farewell to her father once and forever; it was where she spent more than three years as a prisoner of war, and it was where she learned to open her mind, her heart and her soul.

Read full article at: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-12/08/content_7279676.htm