RS(S)4.3: Profiles of Subjects from World War II by GEB https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3 This padlet is view-only. Facilitators should make a padlet for their own use. en-us 2022-05-04 06:51:32 UTC 2025-12-11 04:52:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/987206369/43c851725b55d32ab0c3e9066d846611/RC_Logo.webp Profile moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169500512
  • Local hero who rallied to the Chinese cause when Sino-Japan wars broke out
  • Led Force 136, a Malayan spy group for the British during the war
  • Did not escape capture while he could because he wanted to warn his comrades
  • Subjected to three months torture and extremely harsh living conditions, but did not betray secrets or comrades or his principles of non-cooperation with the enemy
  • His death supposedly provided impetus to the Japanese wardens to improve their imprisonment conditions
  • Colonel Richard Broome's eulogy on Lim: "he died so that Singapore and Malaya might be the home of free people who could once again enjoy peace, prosperity and happiness."
    • ]]>     2022-05-04 07:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169500512     Text A: Yap, S. Y., Bose, R., Pang, A., Singh, K., Lim, L, & Foo, G. (2011) Fortress Singapore –the Battlefield Guide. 4th Edition. Singapore: Marhsall Cavendish Eds. pp.110‐111. moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169501917 Information on Lim Bo Seng Memorial from Fortress Singapore: The Battlefield Guide (2011), p. 110-111]]> 2022-05-04 07:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169501917 Texts B-D: Show, Clara. (2004). Lim Bo Seng ‐ Singapore's Best‐Known War Hero. (5th edition.)Singapore: Asiapac. moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169506105 Comic version of his biography: Lim Bo Seng -- Singapore's Best-Known War Hero (2004) by Clara Show.

    • 'Test of True Courage' (p. 75-94) (Refer to SLS Course)
      • Text B: Show, Clara. (2004). Lim Bo Seng ‐ Singapore's Best‐Known War Hero. (5th edition.) Singapore: Asiapac. pp.75‐94
    • 'Bittersweet Victory' (p. 96-110)
      • Text D: Show, Clara. (2004). Lim Bo Seng ‐ Singapore's Best‐Known War Hero. (5th edition.).
        Singapore: Asiapac. pp.96‐110
    • His eulogy and memorial (p. 114-117) 
      • Text C: Show, Clara. (2004). Lim Bo Seng ‐ Singapore's Best‐Known War Hero. (5th edition.).
        Singapore: Asiapac. pp.114‐117. 

    Note: The information mentions explicit torture methods

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  • Local war heroine, who as a canteen operator in a hospital passed parcels to prisoners of war because she believed in helping others
  • Known for surviving imprisonment and torture by the Kempetai for over 200 days
  • Refused to give names to implicate other innocents
  • Sustained by her strong faith; demonstrated a strong sense of empathy for those around her
  • She was released as the Japanese were impressed by her courage and reputation for altruism.
    • ]]>     2022-05-04 07:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169509385     Text E: Obituary from Telegraph newspaper moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169510280 Use trial to access article]]> 2022-05-04 07:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169510280 Profile moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169519645
  • An ex-police officer who posed as a vegetable seller to access POW territory to smuggle out papers
  • In his memoir, he describes what he witnessed (the conditions in which Indian soldiers were humiliated and imprisoned to break their spirit, because they would not join the Japanese-sponsored Indian National Army (INA)), and the anger against the Japanese, the empathy he felt for the men and desire to obtain justice on their behalf.
  • In his own words, for 'duty, righteousness and humanity'.
    • ]]>     2022-05-04 07:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169519645     Texts F-J: From Duty Bound -- A Singapore War Hero Remembered by David Miller (2014). moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169521646 Assisted memoir from his notes, written as a first-person narrative. His voice comes through strongly and conveys his passion against injustice, and the sense of duty which compelled him.

    • Text F: Miller, David. (2014) Duty Bound ‐ A Singapore War Hero Remembered. Singapore: DMBooks. pp.143‐145  (Refer to SLS Course)
    • Text G: Miller, David. (2014) Duty Bound ‐ A Singapore War Hero Remembered. Singapore: DMBooks. pp.91‐92.  (Refer to SLS Course)
    • Text H: Miller, David. (2014) Duty Bound ‐ A Singapore War Hero Remembered. Singapore: DMBooks. pp.93‐97.  (Refer to SLS Course)
    • Text I: Miller, David. (2014) Duty Bound ‐ A Singapore War Hero Remembered. Singapore: DMBooks. pp.62‐66.  (Refer to SLS Course)
    • Text J: Miller, David. (2014) Duty Bound ‐ A Singapore War Hero Remembered. Singapore: DMBooks. pp.68‐71.  (Refer to SLS Course)
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  • Japanese government official who was formerly jailed by the British as a spy
  • Helped locals to survive mistreatment by his compatriots
  • Unexpected hero who was not confined from empathising with others
  • Attributes his motives to the humane treatment he received from the British while he was jailed by them
    • ]]>     2022-05-04 07:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169523835     Additional Text moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169526045 2022-05-04 07:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169526045 Text K: Lee G. B. (2017) Syonan: Singapore Under the Japanese 1942 to 1945, p.143, rev. edition. Singapore: Singapore Heritage Society and Landmark Books moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169527083 Syonan Singapore Under the Japanese 1942-1945, p. 143, by Lee G. B. (2017), rev. edition]]> 2022-05-04 07:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169527083 Profile moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169529765
  • A Nazi Party member and an opportunist businessman, he did not fit the profile for a wartime rescuer
  • Though his motives may be debatable, he did save a significant number of people, ran risks doing it and did not do it to seek recognition.
    • ]]>     2022-05-04 07:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169529765     Text L: Profile from the Holocaust Encyclopedia moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169530807 2022-05-04 07:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169530807 Additional Text moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169531751 Note: Facilitators may wish to skip the segment where Oskar Schindler's philandering ways are mentioned (14:45-16:15; 36:15-36:35). ]]> 2022-05-04 07:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169531751 Additional Text moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169534951 2022-05-04 07:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2169534951 To modify (excerpt) moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2172412743 2022-05-06 04:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2172412743 1941 - 1942 Battle for Opium Hill moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2201639262 2022-05-27 02:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2201639262 Stories of anti-Japanese overseas Chinese during WWII: Lim Bo Seng moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2201643552 2022-05-27 02:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2201643552 The Bravery of Local Resistance 1942-1945: Elizabeth Choy (SLS) moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2201657815 2022-05-27 02:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RS4_3/wish/2201657815