Interview with Elizabeth Choy Su-Moi

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Chinese civilian member of Medical Auxiliary Service in Singapore, Malaya, 1941-1942; civilian in Singapore, Malaya, 2/1942-11/1943; prisoner in Kempeitai East District Branch Headquarters in Singapore, Malaya, 1943-1944; civilian in Singapore, Malaya, 1944-1945

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REEL 1 Background in Kudat, Sabah, British Borneo and Singapore, Malaya, 1912-1941: family; education; employment as teacher; social work activities; marriage, 8/1941. Aspects of period as nurse with Medical Auxiliary Service in Singapore, Malaya, 1941-1942: question of not expecting Singapore to be attacked from Malayan Peninsula; work as nurse at St Andrew's Hospital; casualties from Imperial Japanese Army Air Service bombing; closure of temporary hospital; attempts to find safe place to shelter family; sight of fires in Singapore. Recollections of period as civilian in Singapore, Malaya, 2/1942-11/1943: Japanese mass screening of Chinese population; return to family home; behaviour of Imperial Japanese Army troops in her house; reaction to British forces surrender, 15/2/1942; return of her father Yong Thau Yin and husband Choy Khun Heng. REEL 2 Continues: operating canteen with husband Choy Khun Heng in Tan Tock Seng Hospital; involvement in passing messages, supplies and medicines to internees in Changi Camp; reasons for arrest of husband Choy Khun Heng by Kempeitai, 10/10/1943. Recollections of period as period as prisoner at Kempeitai East District Branch Headquarters in Singapore, Malaya, 1943-1944: arrest and questioning at Kempeitai East District Branch Headquarters, 11/1943; layout of cell; rations; conditions in cell; nature of interrogation and torture; how husband Choy Khun Heng was brought to see her being tortured. REEL 3 Continues: further details of her torture; reasons for prisoners being allowed to exercise; communicating by sign language; information Kempeitai required from her; how interrogations were conducted; enduring hunger during imprisonment; aid given to internees by Bishop John Wilson; importance of faith during imprisonment; behaviour of Japanese Kempeitai guards; methods employed to keep herself occupied. REEL 4: offering to scrub floor; incident of being given communion by Bishop John Wilson whilst scrubbing floor; lack of contact with outside world; frequency of her interrogation; nationalities of prisoners in cell; attitude towards inactivity; fate of family members; lessons gleaned from imprisonment; release from captivity. Aspects of period as civilian in Singapore, Malaya, 1944-1945: employment as cashier. REEL 5 Continues: atmosphere in Singapore, 1944-1945; story of recuperation offered by Red Cross in GB after liberation; learning of Japanese surrender, 15/8/1945; sending for family to move from Endau to Singapore; release of husband Choy Khun Heng from Outram Road Gaol; post-war involvement in politics in Singapore, Federation of Malaya, 1951-1955.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: National Archive of Singapore (Production company)
Tan, Beng Luan (Recorder)
Choy Su-Moi, Elizabeth (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1985-08-23
Dimensions: whole: Number Of Items 5
Catalogue number: 20385

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