Eight Prison CampsEldest daughter of eight children, the author grew up in Surakarta, Java, in what is now Indonesia. In the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, Dutch nationals were rounded up by Japanese soldiers and put in internment camps. Her father and brother were sent to separate mens camps, leaving the author, her mother, and the five younger children in the womens camp. In this and later seven other prison camps in central Java, their lives