Jackson Center To Interview Author, Historian On American POWs In WWII

Linda Goetz Holmes, noted author and historian on the experiences suffered by American

POWs under the hands of the Japanese during World War II, will be interviewed at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, at the Robert H. Jackson Center.

‘‘We are very pleased that Linda Holmes has agreed to come to Chautauqua County at this time to remind veterans, as we near Veterans Day, what happened to American servicemen who were captured by the Japanese during World War II,’’ said Rolland Kidder, Jackson Center executive director. ‘‘We are also pleased to partner with the Dunkirk and Fredonia Rotary Clubs who are sponsoring her visit, and are especially grateful for the work of Rotarian, Rocco Doino, who arranged this event in honor of his brother, Tony, who was captured at Corregidor in 1942 and spent the rest of the war in various prisons and slave labor camps.’’

Ms. Holmess has written a book, Unjust Enrichment: How Japan’s Companies Built Postwar Fortunes Using American POWs. She has spoken before many veterans groups and all Chautauqua County veterans, and the general public, are invited to the Jackson Center to listen to Greg Peterson, Jackson Center president, interview the author. Veterans in Northern Chautauqua County are also invited to her speech at 12:30 p.m. in the Williams Center at the State University at Fredonia, which is being arranged by the Rotary clubs in that area.

For more information, call Rolland Kidder at the Jackson Center at 483-6646 or Rocco Doino in Fredonia at 679-7481.

The Post-Journal

Jamestown, New York

Monday, October 30, 2006

Vol. 180, No. 130

Section C, Page 2