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Dutch Child Survivor Of Japan's WWII Camps Breaks Silence

Japanese camps survivor Tineke Einthoven, 87 (Credit: AFP)

It has taken Tineke Einthoven 80 years to be able to speak about what she lived through as a child in brutal Japanese internment camps during World War II without breaking down.

"Now I can talk about it without crying," said the Dutch woman who was four when she and her family were captured and held in "horrible" conditions in a camp on the Indonesian island of Java.

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