The Girl Guides of Weihsien knew the power of song too. Mary Previte, a survivor of Camp Weihsien, was just a little girl when she became a Girl Guide in the concentration camp. In an interview at the age of eighty-two, after recounting the horrors of bayonet drills, electrified wires, and guard dogs, she said that singing her song of joy in a strange land is what saved her. “We were constantly putting things into music,” she said. Often, there was a little bit of a twist of fun to it. . . . One of the things that we sang when the Japanese were marching us into concentration camp was the first
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