How the war shaped me: Remembering the fall of S'pore, 80 years on. str.sg/wWBf

We are the last generation to be able to hear WW2 stories from the affected people directly

My interest has been mostly focused on the capture of British service men, one of whom was my dear father. He survived 3.5 years in atrocious conditions of starvation, deprivation and cruelty and it is important to me to learn of the impact 80 years ago on the civilian population - We Will Remember Them!

Good reporting as it makes us be grateful for the peace and harmony we have today.

Probably the last few who sang Kimigayo as their national anthem for 2 years. Didn't occur to me how the survivors felt there and then, when I was browsing the exhibits couple of months back,. Watching this made me realize how painful it was for survivors like Mdm Sim and Mr Peter Loh to experience the loss of their loved ones right before their eyes and to recall it after so many years. My grandfather was very young when the war broke out, but having grown up in a different era was impossible for me to comprehend the hardship our forefathers went through in those tumultuous years

war always destroys families and happiness, as an indonesian who has been living in a peaceful time, its scary & sad to hear these heart breaking war stories.. 🙏🏽

Imagine suffering through hard times where your parents died and reporters force you to recount it 80 years later even if it gives you PTSD and make you sad

Amazing 91yr old mind still alert like a mouse and speaks english better than my oxford educated cat! sadly my 94yr old grandma cant remember what she ate for breakfast

My grandfather was also one of the World War ll survivors

The song that grandfather sang called the "Gunkan March" or "Gunkan Koushinkyoku". This song is the official march of the Imperial Japanese Navy and it is still using by the JMSDF (Japan Martime-Self Defence Force).

My grandpa passed away years ago. He told me that he saw Japanese soldier threw babies up the sky and bayonet infront of his eyes. My grandma's father been taken by Japanese and never came back.. Never.. 😢

Thanks ST for this. I am a history teacher and will be showing this to my students before I commence my lesson on how Singapore fell to the Japanese during WW2. I hope its of meaningful impact to them.

my heart hurt at madam sim's visceral grief for her father. 80 years of pain and suffering.

My great grand mother was in ww2 she passed away I’m a singaporean I can feel the pain❤

Wow how historical and it moves my heart

Singaporeans, forgive but never forget. This is why National Service is important. We got to protect ourselves, no one's going to do it for you.

Singapore is stronger now❤

We can forgive but never forget!!!!!

I hope that the world can have peace so no one will have to experience this

We also need to find out what happened to out civillian force labour(Malaya and Spore) during the construction of Death Railway... where is their burial ground...

Lest we forget

where is the place they saw what happened

We can never experienced what they felt…. Only thing is… respect respect and still respect….

There were Japanese collaborators amongst the Singaporeans. Lee Kuan Yew and SR Nathan did work for the Japanese invaders. How they slept at night is anyone’s guess. Seeing how much death and suffering the people had to endure.

My great grandfather was a Hakka Chinese who left his village in Guangdong to live in Singapore in 1941. My grandmother never heard from him again, no money ever got sent back from overseas. The massacre was systematic, it was a genocide of Chinese men.

Never forget, never forgive, never again

My grandfather John Roberts was a telegraphist in Darwin post office during the second world war

Do not applaud me It is not i Who speaks to you But Histoty which speaks Through my mouth

So sad for this woman. I come back to these old videos to learn more. These men and women of my parents/grandparents era. How they suffered so much. Yet still sacrificed so much to work, earn snd raise their own families in singapore! So much pride. Nowadays the snowflake generation dont know what real suffering is.

3:07 Died Selfishly

My grandfather was also taken away by the Japanese and was never seen again. My grandmother had to bring up 8 children on her own.

Finally, the Japanese surrendered to the Allied Forces at Singapore on 12 September 1945

Fort Siloso very interesting....wow+

日本人はこのことについて知らない人の方が多いかもしれません。

What museum is that?

0:50 it is haunting when he sings that tune.

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I love the books of James Clavell...Rat king about prisoners of war singapore

Yeaaaa

All secrets gone already. A lot passed on and a lot have dementia cant remember.

Most probably this old folk may still be around to see WW3 unfold between the timeline of today until 2024.

I feel so sorry for Singaporeans who lost their lives during Japanese occupation. Unfortunately, abusing pow and civilian are barely taught to Japanese students. I learnt those tragedies through English articles not something written in Japanese as if they are trying to cover up dark side of history.

Jahat gila Jepun dulu².

Never forgive them for what they did.

I sincerely hope those Sinkies who support Russia can watch this and grow a spine.

Xoxo 👍👍👍♥️📡🇲🇾🙏🙏

Japan need to pay a price for this ......

Sugar coating the unanswered situation of our current difficulties of this new generation with past that cannot be changed.

不思議な事に、日本以外のアジアの国は第二次世界大戦が起こる前まで基本的に奴隷国家か誰も気にしない極貧国でしたが、現在裕福なアジアの場所の多くは日本の支配や統治を受けた国や都市であるという事です。

infj enfj!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is all Percival's fault

tenno heika banzai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Japan face this sort of thing until today. The 3000 usa military units in Japan is a punishment to them. USA even does nuclear testing there.

Make baby lah Not b...b 👻

I'm Stuck in Pokemon era😂

Long live Chinese communist party

Chinese people tend to be against allowing people to have guns such as what is allowed in the US. But the Nanjing massacre and Sook Ching are prime examples of why it is important for men and women to have military weapons.

Japan helped free ASEAN from western colonialism.