Surviving Death / The Burma Railway: The War Diary of Guus Fonteijn bag Sydney and Brisbane in 1996

Sydney and Brisbane in 1996

When John receives a ticket to attend a ballet featuring Katya Symanova

Treading Water in the Promised Land tells the story of their attempt at establishing a new life in Beer Sheva on the edge of the Negev desert and later their move close to Haifa

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Surviving Death / The Burma Railway: The War Diary of Guus Fonteijn bag Sydney and Brisbane in 1996Guus' diary is an often heart wrenching account of his time as a forced labourer on the Thai Burma railway. The detail he provides gives the reader a real sense of the horror faced by the men in those appalling conditions, not only from their Japanese captors, but also from Allied bombings. Guus was born in Indonesia, then a Dutch colony, in 1923 to a happy, Jewish family. In 1932 they returned to Holland and after a period, seeing the threat posed by