Lucy Hardee Olsen

(April 23, 1896 – June 24, 1985), former schoolteacher, interned at Santo Tomas with her husband and two children.

Wednesday, January 7, 1942

January 7, 1942

The telephone seldom rings, for ail of our friends have been interned. All day long yesterday not a car passed, except for the policeman. What

[Thursday, January 8, 1942]

January 8, 1942

The now famous Santo Tomas Internment Camp is located in the city, of Manila several blocks from the north bank of the Pasig River on

May 4-28, 1942

May 28, 1942

Then came the fall of Corregidor May fifth. I shall never forget the night before it fell, for the guns 30 miles away could be

November 7, 1944

Then on November 7th, the most wonderful thing happened that happened to us during the whole thirty-six months and twenty-six days of internment. Red Cross