The story of how an ordinary, young woman met the challenges of extraordinarily difficult circumstances. It is a love story, a confession and an apologia. Margaret risked everything to fall in love with Jerry Sams.

Forbidden Family: A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941-1945 (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography)

Biographies & Memoirs

Sams, Margaret

Community & Culture

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Written just five years after the end of World War II, this is Margaret Sams’s moving testimony of life in a Japanese internment camp—the can of Spam hoarded for Christmas dinner, the clandestine radio hidden in her sewing kit, the beheading of other prisoners for transgressions. With her husband held elsewhere as a prisoner of war and with a small son to protect, Margaret broke the rules both of society and of her captors to fall in love and bear a child with a kind and daring fellow internee, Jerry Sams.

Forbidden Family: Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941-1945 (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

University of Wisconsin Press

Interviews and narratives of the daily trials, difficulties, sacrifices, and small joys of four women who survived the Japanese internment camps in the Phillipines are accompanied by rare photographs.

Interrupted Lives: Four Women's Stories of Internment During WWII in the Philippines

Wills, Jane

Jansen, Sascha Jean

Kerns Lewis, Karen

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