SexViolHist Bib: Victims: Narratives: Fifty Years of Silence

»Fifty Years of Silence: The Extraordinary Memoir of a War Rape Survivor is a personal memoir written by Jan Ruff O'Herne, a "comfort woman" who was forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army. « (Extract from: Wikipedia)

G e n e r a l K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Indonesian History, Japanese History

III. Topical Index: Types: Purposes: "Comfort Women" System | Types: Wartime Sexual Violence: Asia-Pacific War

Primary Sources

I. Author Index

Secondary Sources

I. Author Index

[Info] Bhattacharjee, Bhaswati. »The Muffled Memories: Tracing the Traumatic History of the Comfort Women of World War II through Jan Ruff O’Herne’s Memoir Fifty Years of Silence.« Between Trauma and Memory: Reflections Beyond Boundaries. Edited by Neha Soman et al. Singapore 2025: 3-16.

[Info] Verma, Khushboo, et al. »“Was There Any Martyrdom Worse Than This?”: Literary and Television Representations of “Comfort Women” of World War II.« Literature & Aesthetics 34 (2024): 127-136.

II. Speaker Index