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• catalog abstract "When Manila fell in January, 1942, Emily Van Sickle and her husband Charles were among the thousands of American and European civilians who were trapped in the Philippines. The foreigners were interned in the 48-acre campus of Santo Tomas University, offered to the Japanese by the Dominican priests; no other place in the city was large enough to keep them. "Many times during the years that followed," Mrs Van Sickle says, "these brave and generous priests interceded with. the Japanese on our behalf; sometimes their pleas were heeded." The university grounds were enclosed on three sides by high concrete walls and iron bars; Santo Tomas was "a made-to-order concentration camp". It was attractively landscaped, centrally located and spacious enough - but there were few washing and toilet facilities, no sleeping quarters - only classrooms furnished with desks and chairs - and, in the beginning, no food except what the prisoners had been able. to bring with them. It was six months before the Japanese gave them even a meagre food allowance - 25 cents a day for adults. In Santo Tomas, Emily Van Sickle says, the prisoners "learned many things, some funny, some tragic, that are no part of a normal college curriculum." This is a fascinating, detailed and insightful account of life in a civilian concentration camp where each day saw a battle for survival. The prisoners - 5,000 at the outset - thrown on their own. resources for food and the simplest creature comforts, reflected human nature at its best and at its worst, as might be expected. This is a sensitive and informative book, as gripping and readable as any tale of adventure.".
• catalog contributor b3967037.
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "When Manila fell in January, 1942, Emily Van Sickle and her husband Charles were among the thousands of American and European civilians who were trapped in the Philippines. The foreigners were interned in the 48-acre campus of Santo Tomas University, offered to the Japanese by the Dominican priests; no other place in the city was large enough to keep them. "Many times during the years that followed," Mrs Van Sickle says, "these brave and generous priests interceded with.".
• catalog description "resources for food and the simplest creature comforts, reflected human nature at its best and at its worst, as might be expected. This is a sensitive and informative book, as gripping and readable as any tale of adventure.".
• catalog description "the Japanese on our behalf; sometimes their pleas were heeded." The university grounds were enclosed on three sides by high concrete walls and iron bars; Santo Tomas was "a made-to-order concentration camp". It was attractively landscaped, centrally located and spacious enough - but there were few washing and toilet facilities, no sleeping quarters - only classrooms furnished with desks and chairs - and, in the beginning, no food except what the prisoners had been able.".
• catalog description "to bring with them. It was six months before the Japanese gave them even a meagre food allowance - 25 cents a day for adults. In Santo Tomas, Emily Van Sickle says, the prisoners "learned many things, some funny, some tragic, that are no part of a normal college curriculum." This is a fascinating, detailed and insightful account of life in a civilian concentration camp where each day saw a battle for survival. The prisoners - 5,000 at the outset - thrown on their own.".
• catalog extent "341 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Iron gates of Santo Tomás.".
• catalog identifier "0897333799 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Iron gates of Santo Tomás.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chicago, Ill. : Academy Chicago Publishers,".
• catalog relation "Iron gates of Santo Tomás.".
• catalog spatial "Philippines Manila".
• catalog subject "940.53/17/59916092 B 20".
• catalog subject "Americans Philippines Manila Biography.".
• catalog subject "D805.P6 V36 1992".
• catalog subject "Santo Tomás Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines)".
• catalog subject "Van Sickle, Charles.".
• catalog subject "Van Sickle, Emily.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.".
• catalog title "The iron gates of Santo Tomás : imprisonment in Manila, 1942-1945 / by Emily Van Sickle.".
• catalog type "text".