After watching The Sorrow and The Pity, I started to think more about my heritage. The horrible events that occurred during 1941 not only affected the Jewish but also the Dutch and Indonesian. The Japanese Empire occupied the Dutch East Indies from March 1924 until 1945. My grandmother of Indonesian decent was taken to a Japanese concentration camp when she was in her teens. Her memories of the conditions of the internment camp and what she went through there hardened her for the rest of her life. For the first time I am studying other people’s accounts of what she went through during the occupation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). The occupation in Indonesia is rarely mentioned in text books, and is often overshadowed (but also for good reason) by Hitler’s reign during the same time span. I’ve taken this opportunity to study my heritage and better understand my grandmother by seeing the suffering that her country went through.