I sat on the plane to Beijing and felt my emotions. What kind of reaction would I get? How chaotic and strong would my reactions be? I sat and was afraid of my own feelings.
He wondered if my childhood experiences could be turned into a television show?
Several had sent him letters and contacted him by phone. All the inquiries were about the same thing.
A little girl was born in China and had lost her father there. The mother and child had ended up in a Japanese concentration camp. For several years, they did not know if they would see Norway again. Fortunately, they came out of it with their lives intact, and in January 1946 the little girl set foot on Norwegian soil for the first time, aged five and a half.
Tore wrote: "Once again I sat with a story so incredible that it was hard for me to believe that it could be true.
… and he added:
I should probably have known a lot about Norwegians in Japanese concentration camps. But for me, all this was new. I was shocked by AnWei's story and thought that we should definitely tell the Norwegian people about this part of our recent history. There could have been more people than me who had missed this."
Now I, and AnWei, were about to revive her lost childhood.
I have a lot to tell from that trip. But let's just as well start at the beginning.
