From Burma to Nagasaki: the man who walked through hell

Jan Bras does not like to hurt any living thing. If he spots a fly crawling across a table he will cup it carefully in his hand and release it out of the window. “I very quickly feel sorry for people or creatures,” he says, sitting on a beige sofa in the drawing room of the central London flat he shares with his wife of more than 57 years. “That’s one of my things.” At 92 he thinks this surfeit of

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日本の捕虜収容所を生きのびたオランダ人Jan Brasさん(92、当時18-21)の話