Jannie Wilbrink

“From Dutch royalty…in the pre-war and war years in the Dutch East Indies,…this is a breathe of fresh air…a revelation. We are taken into the daily life of a Japanese camp seen thru the eyes of a…girl…as if the girl speaks herself. You enter into her feelings and see all kinds of things happening the way she sees it. It is not a horror story but an extensive and very detailed history of the wells and woes in a Japanese camp. A description which is different from the awful stories which we’ve heard…IT’S A FACINATING BOOK!”
Gerard Bonekamp: Book Reviewer, ‘Among Us‘, De Krant, April 2011

"Java Lost - A Child Imprisoned, is a book that has never left my heart, a story told from the point of view of a child survivor for 2 1/2 years under the rule of Japanese as they occupied the island of Java, Indonesia during World War II, who has lived long enough to tell the unbelievable tale of what really happened, straight from a little girl's heart, a little girl whose growing up years were at the mercy of a different people. Yannie Wilbrink, has written a classic that takes place in a land not well known to readers, where she and a her family found the strength and courage to not only live those years, but the lives for which they were destined in the future."
Penny Porter: Author Heartstrings @ Tail-Tuggers… (meer)