Minus 68 Degree Celsius: Taiwanese POW in Post-World War II Siberia
2021
Chen Li-hang / Avanguard Publishing House
History
War
Biography
According to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, 207,138 Taiwanese youths had served in the army, most of whom were sent to southern China or Southeast Asia. Tân Í-bûn’s (陳以文, 1927-2012) story is an exceptional one: joining the army in 1944, he was sent to Manchuria. When the war concluded, Í-bûn and his comrades were captured by the Soviet army and imprisoned at an internment camp in Siberia. Seventy years after his survival from the camp, Í-bûn’s story was recollected in his grandson Chen Li-hang (陳力航)’s recently published book.
#Taiwanese POW
#Post-World War II
#Siberia