Comfort Woman

Maria Rosa Henson First published 1996

About this book

"In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson (1928-1996) was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a "comfort woman." In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk guerrillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a rebel leader who left her to raise their children alone.

Her triumph against all odds is embodied by her decision to go public - at the urging of the Task Force on Filipino Comfort Women - with the secret she had held close for fifty years."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

atrocities
biography
comfort women
filipino personal narratives
history
japanese occupation, 1942-1945
philippine personal narratives
philippines, biography
prostitutes
prostitution
prostitution, asia
service, compulsory non-military
sources
women
women, biography
women, philippines
world war, 1939-1945