Fedencia Nacar David

Fedencia Nacar David

Fedencia Nacar David

Born in Luzon, the Philippines, Drafted year: 1942, 14y/o, for 10 days + a month(2times)

Even after that, two, three Japanese soldiers

would come to rape me

frequently and took food from me.

My father was hiding out elsewhere and I was home alone.

There was no hope.

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When I went to the village market with my grandmother, two Japanese soldiers hit me that I collapsed and they tied my hands behind. When I resisted, they cut my ear with a knife and then took me away. I was taken to room in a government office where a Japanese soldier came 

and tried to hold me. I started screaming but the soldier covered my mouth and raped me. I was raped by more soldiers after that. There were about ten other women.

I worked during the day, and soldiers kept coming at night. After about 10 days, soldiers told me to go home. They thought we were guerrilla spies, so they let me go on purpose to put a tail on me. When we arrived home the next day,

the Japanese soldier shot my grandmother and killed her for no reason. In this chaos, the two Japanese soldiers raped me. I fainted and I gathered myself after a while and came home.

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the Japanese soldier shot my grandmother and killed her for no reason. In this chaos, the two Japanese soldiers raped me. I fainted and I gathered myself after a while and came home.

Only after one month of this, the Japanese soldiers finally stopped coming. I have suffered from traumatic amnesia. I couldn’t even speak at the time.

* In order to make ends meet, she seeks for pieces of cloth and make cleaning towels for sale. She uses a sewing machine to make it in a size small enough to hold in one hand. It’s only 1 peso (3cents) each, but she says it’s better than just resting, and she keeps looking for work to do.