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Show Parents Find Daughter Lost for Eight Years SINGAPORE - A Dutch army sergeant and his wife have found their daughter after eight years. In 1942, when the Japanese invaded in-vaded Java, the parents of Bertha Ber-tha de Hartogh, 13, gave their daughter to her amah (native nurse) because they feared for her safety. The parents were captured by the Japanese and interned. When they were liberated in 1945, they began a search for Bertha, but could find no trace. Eventually they returned to Holland. Reports of a fair-haired girl living in a Malay village north of Singapore reached a district officer. offi-cer. A check established it was Bertha. Her nurse had fled with her to Malaya when the Japanese invaded in-vaded Java. For nearly eight years the blond, blue-eyed girl had been living as a Malay child m sarong and bolero, attending a Malay school. The child did not want to leave her amah, upon whom she looked as her mother. And the nurse, Amman Aminah, wanted to keep the child. But Bertha was returned to her parents in Holland by two Dutch army nurses. |