Song of Survival: Women Interned by Helen Colijn
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Book Reviews of Song of Survival: Women Interned
Book Review: Song of Survival
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was educational as well as an enjoyable book to read. I used this book when studying stories of survival. My students really enjoyed listening and reading it.Book Review: A good read.
Summary: 4 Stars
The book is entertaining, well written and easy to read. Don't be fooled by the title it is a book for men and women alike. My book club is currently reading this book and everyone that I've talked to is enjoying it.Book Review: Song of Survival
Summary: 4 Stars
I had heard the recording and was curious about the story. What an amazing demonstration of
the power of music to heal.
Book Review: Men might not have prevailed like this heroines.
Summary: 3 Stars
When one reads of the hardships that Colijn and her fellow inmates lived through, one expects that they would have focused on survival, and thrown all other concerns to the wind. There were some who did, but not others. Many strove to keep a modicum of loveliness in their lives. Sometimes, all they could do was escape to memories of their past, either through daydreaming or conversation. There were instances, however, of actual impact on their current situation, including a refusal of some inmates to lick their plates(though food was scarce), struggles to live in peace and harmony with fellow inmates, and, most of all, the musical peformances. You might imagine that if you were living in a filthy prison camp where people were dropping like flies, you would owe it to yourself to fight for your survival tooth and nail, even against the other inmates, and the furthest thing from your mind would be music. You would need to look out for number one, period. Colijn believes that many more of them might have perished, or, at least, might not have come out as well, had there not been a commitment to community and beauty in that abject misery. In a sense, this book tells about war heroines.
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