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Under the Java Moon
Heather B. Moore
Illustrator: Sheryl Dickert Smith (maps)
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-63993-153-8
Keywords: WWII, Indonesia, Colonialism
In Japanese internment camps in the occupied Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II, Dutch families endure brutal conditions. Based on a true story. Maps and archival photographs and images. Time line. Back matter.