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Lost Childhood is the vivid, first-hand account of the horror of war as seen through the eyes of a child. This is the real-life memoir of a woman who is breaking her 60-year silence to tell the riveting story of her ordeal as a prisoner in a wartime camp. As a little Dutch girl living in Indonesia, Annalex Hofstra’s comfortable world was torn apart when she and her family were forced to live in Japanese prison camps for three and a half years during World War II.

Annelex Hofstra Layson spent three of the first seven years of her life in Japanese prison camps. The heartrending story of her lost childhood has remained untold for 60 years.

“We rarely think about four-year-olds being imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II. This compelling autobiography describes a four-year-old girl’s reactions to imprisonment and her perspective of the unusual life she is forced to lead. She describes living under deplorable and dangerous conditions. The people in the camp were primarily Dutch, and they were intimidated and mistreated by their Japanese captors. When their captivity was over at the end of the war, another enemy surfaced, the Indonesians. They were involved in a revolution and wanted independence from the Dutch occupiers. They welcomed the Japanese who helped them drive the Dutch from Indonesia. At the end of the war, the situation changed. The Japanese began protecting the Dutch. They no longer made rules and mistreated the women and children. They became their friends. The Indonesians became their enemy. Layson writes about her precarious existence in the concentration camp, and it is riveting to read. Eventually, her beloved brother was able to find them in the camp and they had a joyful reunion. Later, aided by the Red Cross, their father located the family, and they had a brief, happy family once again. The story comes alive with the characters, and the reader becomes so close to Annalex, the little girl we so admire, it is difficult to picture her as the grandmother she has become.”

–Children’s Literature