Sunday 11/09/2025
Read the paper, did the puzzle, watered the plants, then walked to Cafe Zoe for a cup and a cake.
After lunch I edited the video of an event from Wednesday, a surgeon talking about what’s new in knee and hip replacements. Pretty good talk, actually.
Then down to the auditorium to help Sandy set up for an event. This was a Sunday@Home. That series is for residents to show off their travels or their hobbies or whatever. In this case it was that Stew’s wife Kathy had been in the Peninsula Women’s Chorus when they gave a concert in 1984. The concert comprised the music composed by British and Dutch women, held in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra in 1942-45.
That time and the story of how the women recreated classic music pieces with no instruments or equipment, was documented in the video, Song of Survival. The PWC concert was in 1984, and it was recorded by a movie team who included bits of it in the documentary. Stew and Kathy introduced the video; then we ran it. It’s a very well made documentary, mostly narrated by the surviving women from the camps, some of them recorded when they went back to Sumatra in the 1980s.
I thought the title was familiar and I knew the general story so I was pretty sure I had seen the documentary before. But when? I didn’t know until just now, when I went looking for the DVD on Amazon (link above). when it comes up, Amazon tells me “Last purchased in 2008, click here for the order.” Amazon never forgets. It seems Marian bought that same DVD off Amazon in 2008. We must have watched it at home, which is why I remembered the story. It wasn’t around when I was cleaning the house out, so I imagine Marian loaned it on to some friend.
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