My mother, Doreen Gibbons, who has died aged 96, was a civil internee in Shanghai, China, during the second world war.
In 1942, soon after Japanese soldiers took over Shanghai, her father, Frank Cook, who worked for the city’s municipal council, was taken to Haiphong Road camp as a “political prisoner”. Doreen described furiously pedalling her bicycle through Shanghai behind the lorry, tears streaming down her face.
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