| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
DS 686.4 A38 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13961 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Agustin, Conrado Gar
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Men and memories in confinement :
- Remainder of title - excerpts from a diary written in prison during the Japanese occupation, June 21, 1942-February 15, 1945 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Conrado Gar Agustin
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Manila :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - MCS Enterprises,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1973.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xii, 38 p., [34] leaves, 6 p., [15] leaves, 4 p., [85] leaves, 6 p., [2] leaves :
- Other physical details - ill., clippings and pictorials ;
- Dimensions - 22 x 17 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Diary kept by a Filipino who was arrested by the Japanese for writing and spreading anti-Japanese leaflets early in the occupation. Considered a "misguided element," Agustin was brought to Fort Santiago, where he was interrogated and tortured; he wrote this diary "with great personal risk" and hid it in his pillowcase. This is one of very few instances where an actual Filipino prisoner (not a combatant) documents life in a Japanese prison and names his fellow inmates, many of whom later became very important persons. After almost ten months, and after a mock trial, Agustin and some fellow prisoners were sentenced to fixed terms and moved to New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa; there he would stay until the liberation in February 1945. The actual diary is quite short; the rest of the book is composed of newspaper and periodical articles, mementos, and a collection of signatures of fellow prisoners with morale-boosting messages. Many of those who signed did not survive the war. Includes a partial listing of prisoners in Fort Santiago (many notable personalities). - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, Philippine.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese prisons - Fort Santiago / Bilibid / Muntinglupa
- Uncontrolled term - Kempeitai
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - Filipino
- Uncontrolled term - prison diary
- Uncontrolled term - underground propaganda
- Uncontrolled term - underground resistance
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