by The Indo Project Between 1942 and 1945, more than 130 Japanese ships carried Allied prisoners of war (POW) and Asian forced laborers (romusha) across Southeast Asia, packed into overcrowded holds without food, water, or air. Survivors gave them a name that stuck: hell ships. Several of these voyages ended in death tolls higher than…
by Astrid Berg, Ph.D. Introduction: Understanding Collective Trauma Integration The Collective Trauma Integration Process (CTIP) supports individuals and groups in integrating trauma that has been passed down through generations and is embedded in cultural systems—such as slavery, war, genocide, and racism. As Thomas Hübl teaches, these traumas live not only in our nervous systems, but also…
The following was received from Ms. Jan Thompson, President of the American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor Memorial Society and was addressed to the Congressional Veterans’ Affairs Committees. The contents apply not only to American POW’s but also to those Indos, Dutch and others in the former Dutch East Indies who were POW’s of the…