| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 802 .P6 J33 1986 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14661 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (softbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 802 .P6 J33 1986
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Jacobs, Abby R.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - We did not surrender
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Abby R. Jacobs ; with preface and supplement by Robert Benton Silliman
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| Edition Statement |
- Edition statement - A memorial ed.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Manila :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - [s.n.],
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1986.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xiv, 148 p. :
- Dimensions - 23 x 15 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - A first-hand account of those who took to the hills after the Japanese invasion and lived with the guerrillas. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account by an American teaching English in Silliman University, Dumaguete, Negros Oriental.
When the war broke out, she and other co-faculty members aided the war effort by providing assistance to USAFFE soldiers in Dumaguete, and continuing to publish the school paper, The Sillimanian, with morale-boosting news and features. When the Japanese landed and took Dumaguete, Jacobs and her colleagues did not surrender but took to the hills and aided the resistance movement. In February 1944, she and several other fellow American civilians were evacuated to Australia by the submarine Narwhal.
Although her narrative ends with the evacuation, Jacobs continued in the war effort by joining the Office of War Information in Australia and newly liberated Manila, writing, editing and even broadcasting news to the Philippines.
Jacobs based this account on a diary and her own memory, and writes with the skill of a journalist, which she was. She passed away in 1983; her manuscript was published posthumously, with a preface and supplement by Robert Silliman, her brother in law and acting president of Silliman University at the time and also deputy governor for Southern Negros in the Free Negros government. - 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 - Guerrillas
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Guerrillas
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Underground movements
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Silliman, Robert Benton
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