CHOY, Elizabeth (Mrs) @ Yong Su Moi 蔡杨素梅
Japanese Occupation of Singapore,
Accession Number 000597
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 5
Total Reels
- Tan Beng Luan
Interviewer
- 02:22:14
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 5
Metadata
- 23 Aug 1985
Recording Date
- 00:29:15
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Her educational background. Came to Singapore for further study. Trained as teacher. Active in social work. Married in 1941. Not expecting Singapore to be attacked. Joined Medical Auxiliary Service (MAS). St Andrew's School turned into hospital. Offered nursing help. Conditions worsened. Temporary hospital closed. Her search for safer shelter. Mass screening experience. Behaviour of soldiers in her house. Her reaction to British surrender.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 5
Metadata
- 23 Aug 1985
Recording Date
- 00:29:13
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
She and her husband operated a canteen in General Hospital at Woodbridge. Became involved in passing messages, food, medicine, etc to internees in Changi Camp. As a result of Double Tenth Incident, her husband was taken away by Kempeitai. Later she too was taken to YMCA for questioning. Layout of cell. Food given. Conditions in cell. Her interrogation and torture. Husband brought to watch her being tortured.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 5
Metadata
- 23 Aug 1985
Recording Date
- 00:29:11
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Further description of her torture. Why detainees were allowed exercises. Fellow detainees communicated by sign language. Information Kempeitai wanted from her. How interrogations were conducted. How she endured hunger. How Bishop Wilson helped internees. How her faith in God helped her during period of detention. What she did to keep herself occupied.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 5
Metadata
- 28 Aug 1985
Recording Date
- 00:29:53
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Offered to scrub floor. Given communion by Bishop Wilson when scrubbing near his cell. Given extra portion of food for scrubbing floor. No contact with outside world at all. Frequency of her interrogation. Nationalities of detainees in her cell. Inactivity was her greatest agony. Worried about her father. Her lecture tour for Foreign Office after the war. How she was released. Got job as cashier.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 5
Metadata
- 28 Aug 1985
Recording Date
- 00:24:42
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Worked at job until liberation. Repatriated to England for recuperation by Red Cross. How she learnt of Japanese surrender. Sent for her family in Endau to return to Singapore. Her husband released from Outram Road Prison. How she was involved in politics in 1950s. Lost in election but became nominated member of Legislative Council.
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