Barbara ANSLOW (née REDWOOD) [1918-2019] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Barbara ANSLOW (née REDWOOD) [1918-2019]

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Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-05-22 22:14
Names
Given: 
Barbara
Family: 
Anslow
Maiden: 
Redwood
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1918-12-01
Death
Date: 
2019-10-29

Barbara kept a diary covering the period 1941-1945, ie the fighting in Hong Kong, and her internment in Stanley Camp. You can read her diary online here, and also buy a copy of the printed diaries (published as Tin Hats and Rice) in the Gwulo shop.

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
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Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-01-08 11:40.

The interview appeared in The China Daily:

Forgive but never forget

By Zhao Xu (China Daily)

Ninety-year-old Barbara Anslow says Hong Kong represents all that is great, sad and unexpected in her life. It was where she bade farewell to her father once and forever; it was where she spent more than three years as a prisoner of war, and it was where she learned to open her mind, her heart and her soul.

Read full article at: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-12/08/content_7279676.htm

Submitted by David on Wed, 2015-08-19 15:12.

The China Daily has published an article about Stanley Camp that includes quotes from Barbara (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2015-08/13/content_21583796.htm), and also a longer interview with Barbara (http://www.chinadailyasia.com/focus/2015-08/13/content_15303483.html).

Submitted by David on Thu, 2017-01-12 17:43.

Paul Letters has written up an interesting interview with Barbara: How Hong Kong POW Barbara Anslow killed time in Stanley internment camp.