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欢迎参加我们的朋友 John Franken
8月15日 10:00AM
日本使馆前 (255 Sussex Drive)
in front of the Japenese Embassy
以纪念反日本法西斯胜利60周年的示威
to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of
the end of WWII in ASIA.
背景介绍：
TEA AT THE EMBASSY
http://www.cbc.ca/roughcuts/feature_041203.html
Every December, John Franken travels from his home in Montreal to the Japanese Embassy in Ottawa. Every year he mounts a personal protest, calling for an official apology for his time spent as a POW in Japanese slave labour camps during the Second World War. Franken will go again this year, but will it be any different from the last?
During the Second World War, Franken spent three and a half years as a POW in Japanese slave labour camps. He has spent the last 50 years in the tireless pursuit of an official apology from the Japanese government. At first he was ignored, but eventually the embassy invited him inside for a cup of tea - but nothing more.
These days, the term "activist" usually calls to mind the image of a young demonstrator, rushing forward, impatiently pushing for change. But what if the activist is an octogenarian, moving forward in small steps, whose patience has allowed him to keep up his struggle for over 50 years? What would such an activist look like? Meet John Franken.
Franken is a Jewish-Canadian who grew up in Indonesia. He was captured by the Japanese during the war, forced to work as a towel boy in a brothel filled with Korean "comfort women." He then worked as a slave labourer in a coal mine. Franken was in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped - surviving because he was deep underground. When he emerged on Aug. 9, 1945, the charred landscape was completely barren; the smell of burning flesh was overwhelming. The day 70,000 people died, Franken was set free.
Franken works tirelessly on his cause - in addition to his protests, he talks to schoolchildren and travels to conferences about Japan's conduct during the war - always calling for a public apology from the government of Japan. For many ex-POWs time is running out, so Franken continues his quest to preserve the memory of those men, women and children who suffered so much horror during the Second World War. John Franken plans to return to the Japanese Embassy on Monday, December 8th.
Tea At The Embassy is produced by Cine Qua Non Films Inc. in association with RDI and CBC Newsworld. It is written and directed by Catherine Hébert; produced by Josée Roberge.
?有一些老?都?加John每年12月的示威。有?次都是零下20度。
我?曾建阻John把他每年的示威改到8月15日。
除了John之外╋?有加拿大曾到香港服役的退伍?人也??加。
John告之╋8月15日渥太攘退伍?人????有?祝活?。
MORE:
渥太攘史居?正??9月9日╋日本投降日╋?揠?影欣兖?。
希望大家都能?加。
渥太攘史居?
史居?:
Canada Association for Learning & Preserving the History of WWII in Asia
Canada ALPHA
http://www.alpha-canada.org/
欢迎参加我们的朋友 John Franken
8月15日 10:00AM
日本使馆前 (255 Sussex Drive)
in front of the Japenese Embassy
以纪念反日本法西斯胜利60周年的示威
to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of
the end of WWII in ASIA.
背景介绍：
TEA AT THE EMBASSY
http://www.cbc.ca/roughcuts/feature_041203.html
Every December, John Franken travels from his home in Montreal to the Japanese Embassy in Ottawa. Every year he mounts a personal protest, calling for an official apology for his time spent as a POW in Japanese slave labour camps during the Second World War. Franken will go again this year, but will it be any different from the last?
During the Second World War, Franken spent three and a half years as a POW in Japanese slave labour camps. He has spent the last 50 years in the tireless pursuit of an official apology from the Japanese government. At first he was ignored, but eventually the embassy invited him inside for a cup of tea - but nothing more.
These days, the term "activist" usually calls to mind the image of a young demonstrator, rushing forward, impatiently pushing for change. But what if the activist is an octogenarian, moving forward in small steps, whose patience has allowed him to keep up his struggle for over 50 years? What would such an activist look like? Meet John Franken.
Franken is a Jewish-Canadian who grew up in Indonesia. He was captured by the Japanese during the war, forced to work as a towel boy in a brothel filled with Korean "comfort women." He then worked as a slave labourer in a coal mine. Franken was in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped - surviving because he was deep underground. When he emerged on Aug. 9, 1945, the charred landscape was completely barren; the smell of burning flesh was overwhelming. The day 70,000 people died, Franken was set free.
Franken works tirelessly on his cause - in addition to his protests, he talks to schoolchildren and travels to conferences about Japan's conduct during the war - always calling for a public apology from the government of Japan. For many ex-POWs time is running out, so Franken continues his quest to preserve the memory of those men, women and children who suffered so much horror during the Second World War. John Franken plans to return to the Japanese Embassy on Monday, December 8th.
Tea At The Embassy is produced by Cine Qua Non Films Inc. in association with RDI and CBC Newsworld. It is written and directed by Catherine Hébert; produced by Josée Roberge.
?有一些老?都?加John每年12月的示威。有?次都是零下20度。
我?曾建阻John把他每年的示威改到8月15日。
除了John之外╋?有加拿大曾到香港服役的退伍?人也??加。
John告之╋8月15日渥太攘退伍?人????有?祝活?。
MORE:
渥太攘史居?正??9月9日╋日本投降日╋?揠?影欣兖?。
希望大家都能?加。
渥太攘史居?
史居?:
Canada Association for Learning & Preserving the History of WWII in Asia
Canada ALPHA
http://www.alpha-canada.org/
