Paula (89) Survived a Japanese Camp as a Child, but Was Hit the Hardest in the Netherlands: 'No One Asked What We Had Been Through'

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Paula Cremers-Cardynaals (89) was 4 years old when she saw people fencing off her house in the Dutch East Indies with barbed wire. It was the beginning of 3.5 years of imprisonment in internment camps under the Japanese occupation, where hunger, torture and mortal fear were a daily reality. She has no traumas, she says. Yet the impact is lasting.