| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 W588 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
16140 |
| 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 805 .P6 W588
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Witthoff, Evelyn M.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Three years' internment in Santo Tomas
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Evelyn M. Witthoff and Geraldine V. Chappell
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Kansas City :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Beacon Hill Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - [1945?].
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 62 p. :
- Other physical details - ill. ,
- Dimensions - 19 x 14 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - En route for medical service in India when the Japanese invaded the Philippines, the authors had to disembark at Manila in December 1941. They were interned and give a detailed account of their survival until freedom on the 3rd February, 1945. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - The authors, an American missionary medical doctor and nurse, respectively, were on their way to India when the war started. The ship they were on disembarked them in Manila, and sailed on, only to be sunk by the Japanese.
Dr. Witthoff and nurse Chappell, writing in alternate chapters, detail their being stranded in Manila, keeping busy with the Civilian Emergency Administration, and their internment in Santo Tomas. They describe their life in Santo Tomas, and liberation in 1945. They went back to the US afterwards. - 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, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Chappell, Geraldine V.
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