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How it Survived: How the Moulmein Christian Hospital Lived through World War II And its Aftermath

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  • Title:
    How it Survived: How the Moulmein Christian Hospital Lived through World War II And its Aftermath
  • Author: Denison University Libraries ; Gifford, Martha J
  • Subjects: Kachin (Asian people) ; Karen (Southeast Asian people) ; Mon (Southeast Asian People) ; Moulmein Christian Hospital ; World War, 1939-1945
  • Description: This narrative of the Moulmein Christian Hospital from World War II-1968 includes descriptions of the wartime evacuations, the political and social unrest that plagued the region for decades following the war (including the kidnap and murder of employees), and the successes and failures of the hospital's medical and religious programs. "About forty students were in training [at the nursing and midwifery training school] and nearly 100 graduated spreading Christian medical care to many parts of Burma." "It was in Dec. 1941, while our work was going on in encouraging fashion and we were thinking that the war in Europe 'couldn't happen here' that the blow came. During hospital rounds we were interrupted by the news of the Japanese attacks on Honolulu and Manila. A little later we learned that two days before Christmas about 1000 people were killed and others injured by an air raid on Rangoon." "Soon Moulmein was to have her own experience of bombing. Trenches had been dug and other air raid shelters improvised. Parts of the hospital were considered less dangerous than others and, as far as possible, patients were kept in these areas... advice [to evacuate] was coming with increasing frequency from mission officers, the American Embassy and the friendly local officers. Raids were becoming more frequent and warning of overland invasion was given when Tavoy and Kawkareik fell to the Japanese. We had planned to stay as long as possible and help as needed." "Hurried evacuation soon became imperative...One day we were trying to make it safer for us to stay. The next we were asking relatives to take patients home, and advising nurses to get back to their homes if possible, or to seek a place of greater safety than Moulmein. To their great credit it can be said that there was no panic, no lack of self-control. On the contrary, nurses, Dr. Ah Ma, and Daw Seint, our Bible woman, adopted our unclaimed babies and in the end all had found homes." "'By the old Moulmein pagoda, tall and stately on the hill, There are Burmese souls awaiting, souls awaiting, waiting still; And the wind is in the palm trees, and to me it seems to say 'Come you back, you Christian people, Come you back to Mandalay, Come you back to preach and pray.''" a line from a song used to encourage the missionaries in the United States while they waited out the war. The only message received from a missionary who was kidnapped by insurgents following the war and killed during a rescue attempt: "'I know you don't have the [ransom] money. They say they will kill me if they don't get it. That will be all right.'" Part of: Baptist Missionaries in Burma -- Denison University
  • Creation Date: 1967
  • Language: English
  • Source: Open Shared Collection
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