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It is Oct 1942. Through the doorway of this small three-roomed cottage, which houses thirty-two of us, we look out beyond to a steaming jungle in Sumatra. In 1942 a group of sixty-five Australian Army medical sisters was evacuated from Malaya a couple of days before the semester of Singapore. Two days later their ship was bombed and sunk by japan. With the fifty-three survivors who scrambled ashore, twenty-one were murdered and the rest of the thirty-two used prisoner. White Coolies is the engrossing record kept by one of the sisters, Betty Jeffrey, through the more than three gruelling years of imprisonment that used. It is an amazing story of success and deprivation and the harshest of conditions.
