{"id":4106,"date":"2020-10-21T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T00:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/martina-madeira-hoar\/"},"modified":"2020-11-07T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T02:27:24","slug":"martina-madeira-hoar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/martina-madeira-hoar\/","title":{"rendered":"Martina Madeira Hoar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tMartina Madeira Hoar\n\t<\/h1>\n<h1>\n\t\tMartina Madeira Hoar\n\t<\/h1>\n<h4>\n\t\tBorn in Casabauk, East-Timor, Drafted year: 1942, 12y\/o, for 3 years\n\t<\/h4>\n\t<p>I was about 12 years old,<\/p>\n<p>and there were lots of young women.<\/p>\n<p>I was a Japanese soldier&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of soldiers came every day.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tm1_01_Martina_021.jpg\" alt=\"tm1_01_Martina_021\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"786\" width=\"1100\" title=\"tm1_01_Martina_021\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\n\t<p>My parents were farmers. I was home alone when the Japanese soldiers came. I ran away out of fear. Meanwhile, my parents came back and they caught my parents. They made threats to take me away which they did immediately.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was about 12 years old, and there were lots of young women. I was a Japanese soldier&#8217;s wife. A lot of soldiers came every day. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They did not hit me. I stayed there for 1 year like that before they told to me to go home.<\/p>\n<style rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\">\nblockquote {border-left:5px solid #B21DAE;}<\/style>\n\t<blockquote><p>After returning home, Japanese soldiers would come from time to time and ask for me. When my parents refused, they were beaten up and I was taken away. I had to go because they would beat my parents if I didn&#8217;t.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was no doctor, no treatment and no medicine even if I got sick. They only fed me. I was released two years later when the war ended.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/tm1_01_Martina_023-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"tm1_01_Martina_023\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"tm1_01_Martina_023\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/tm1_01_Martina_024-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"tm1_01_Martina_024\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"tm1_01_Martina_024\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\n\t<p>I don&#8217;t know when my sister was taken. I found out about it later. We were living apart because we had different fathers. I only heard about it after we started living together. I got married but I have no children.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I look back what happened at the time, I get a headache. I have back pain and cough a lot. I wish I could fix the old house.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<p>* She met her sister in 1975 and has been living with her in their relative&#8217;s house since then. She is reluctant to talk about her past in front of other family members. It probably was extremely difficult for her to show her pain to a stranger who is also a foreigner, she said she was a Japanese soldier&#8217;s wife, to describe what she went through. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents were farmers. I was home alone when the Japanese soldiers came. I ran away out of fear. Meanwhile, my parents came back and they caught my parents. They made threats to take me away which they did immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I was about 12 years old, and there were lots of young women. I was a Japanese soldier\u2019s wife. A lot of soldiers came every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,76,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juju-project.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}