Included in this book are interviews and narratives from four women who survived the Japanese internment camps in the Philippines: Margaret Sams, Sascha Jean Jansen, Jane Wills, and Karen Kerns Lewis. There are many books available on the intense, often harrowing, sometimes terrible experiences during World War II. Lives were lost, twisted turned around and dramatically changed. In offering this book, there aim is to awaken a spark of understanding or there common heritage.