Wartime Memories

[kuyageezer]

Apologize for non-existent captions. TCR, boybaha, and I just went through my mom's stack and picked these out to post.

This might be the civilian staff of a japanese run hospital?


POWs


Ruins - Escolta?




Looking through the photos:
boybaha, TCR, and Mrs. TCR

[kuyageezer]

Apologize for non-existent captions. TCR, boybaha, and I just went through my mom's stack and picked these out to post.

This might be the civilian staff of a japanese run hospital?


POWs


Ruins - Escolta?




Looking through the photos:
boybaha, TCR, and Mrs. TCR

[kuyageezer]

Apologize for non-existent captions. TCR, boybaha, and I just went through my mom's stack and picked these out to post.

This might be the civilian staff of a japanese run hospital?


POWs


Ruins - Escolta?




Looking through the photos:
boybaha, TCR, and Mrs. TCR

[Hawayano]

Wow--more fascinating historical photos! I've added some info that may help you define your captions, kuya-G, and they're italicized:

US soldiers escorting Japanese POWs (dressed as civilians to avoid violent retaliatory attacks while being led through liberated civilian territory) out of Santo Tomas; they're crossing a PNR junction, somewhere in the northern section of Manila.


This is indeed the ruined Escota, looking down from the Perez-Samanillo building on far right, toward the Philippine Education building, standing just past the fallen heap of rubble that once was the Cu-Unjieng building. What an eerie tableau!


I've seen this photo identified in other publications as Manila City Hall after securing it from the Japanese. Note the pile-up of burnt Japanese soldiers at the entrance.

[Hawayano]

Wow--more fascinating historical photos! I've added some info that may help you define your captions, kuya-G, and they're italicized:

US soldiers escorting Japanese POWs (dressed as civilians to avoid violent retaliatory attacks while being led through liberated civilian territory) out of Santo Tomas; they're crossing a PNR junction, somewhere in the northern section of Manila.


This is indeed the ruined Escota, looking down from the Perez-Samanillo building on far right, toward the Philippine Education building, standing just past the fallen heap of rubble that once was the Cu-Unjieng building. What an eerie tableau!


I've seen this photo identified in other publications as Manila City Hall after securing it from the Japanese. Note the pile-up of burnt Japanese soldiers at the entrance.

[Hawayano]

Wow--more fascinating historical photos! I've added some info that may help you define your captions, kuya-G, and they're italicized:

US soldiers escorting Japanese POWs (dressed as civilians to avoid violent retaliatory attacks while being led through liberated civilian territory) out of Santo Tomas; they're crossing a PNR junction, somewhere in the northern section of Manila.


This is indeed the ruined Escota, looking down from the Perez-Samanillo building on far right, toward the Philippine Education building, standing just past the fallen heap of rubble that once was the Cu-Unjieng building. What an eerie tableau!


I've seen this photo identified in other publications as Manila City Hall after securing it from the Japanese. Note the pile-up of burnt Japanese soldiers at the entrance.

[Lili]

Such powerful images.

[Lili]

Such powerful images.

[Lili]

Such powerful images.

[bagel]

Thanks KG.

There was a little bit of confusion about where this picture was taken:


The building behind them looks very art deco and I suggested that it was perhaps Far Eastern University on Quezon Blvd and Claro M. Recto. But we're not too sure about it.

Any guesses?

UPDATE
OK... I did more internet snooping around. My memory did serve me right. It does look like FEU's Nicanor Reyes Hall, which was designed by National Artist for Architecture Pablo Antonio and built in 1939.

From the Wikipedia entry about FEU:
The Japanese Imperial Army Kempetai seized and occupied the FEU compound during the Pacific War. Japanese forces burned and destroyed the University's records, books, and facilities, sparing only the buildings, which they used as a concentration camp. Many executions of top Filipino leaders in resistance to Japanese occupation, like that of Josefa Llanes Escoda and her colleagues were conducted on campus. The Japanese are also said to have killed Dr. Nicanor Reyes and some members of his family.

For comparison:

[bagel]

Thanks KG.

There was a little bit of confusion about where this picture was taken:


The building behind them looks very art deco and I suggested that it was perhaps Far Eastern University on Quezon Blvd and Claro M. Recto. But we're not too sure about it.

Any guesses?

UPDATE
OK... I did more internet snooping around. My memory did serve me right. It does look like FEU's Nicanor Reyes Hall, which was designed by National Artist for Architecture Pablo Antonio and built in 1939.

From the Wikipedia entry about FEU:
The Japanese Imperial Army Kempetai seized and occupied the FEU compound during the Pacific War. Japanese forces burned and destroyed the University's records, books, and facilities, sparing only the buildings, which they used as a concentration camp. Many executions of top Filipino leaders in resistance to Japanese occupation, like that of Josefa Llanes Escoda and her colleagues were conducted on campus. The Japanese are also said to have killed Dr. Nicanor Reyes and some members of his family.

For comparison:

[bagel]

Thanks KG.

There was a little bit of confusion about where this picture was taken:


The building behind them looks very art deco and I suggested that it was perhaps Far Eastern University on Quezon Blvd and Claro M. Recto. But we're not too sure about it.

Any guesses?

UPDATE
OK... I did more internet snooping around. My memory did serve me right. It does look like FEU's Nicanor Reyes Hall, which was designed by National Artist for Architecture Pablo Antonio and built in 1939.

From the Wikipedia entry about FEU:
The Japanese Imperial Army Kempetai seized and occupied the FEU compound during the Pacific War. Japanese forces burned and destroyed the University's records, books, and facilities, sparing only the buildings, which they used as a concentration camp. Many executions of top Filipino leaders in resistance to Japanese occupation, like that of Josefa Llanes Escoda and her colleagues were conducted on campus. The Japanese are also said to have killed Dr. Nicanor Reyes and some members of his family.

For comparison:

[Lili]

I checked out who Josefa Llanes Escoda and Dr. Nicanor Reyes are. Here is what I got from Wikipedia:

JOSEFA LLANES ESCODA

Picture below in 1,000 peso bill.

Josefa Llanes Escoda (September 20, 1898–c. January 6, 1945) was a well-known Filipino advocate of women's right of suffrage and founder of the Girls Scouts of the Philippines.

Escoda was born in Dingras, Ilocos Norte. She was the eldest of the seven children of Mercedes Madamba and Gabriel Llanes. She was valedictorian in grade school and salutatorian in high school in Ilocos Norte. She went to Philippine Normal School in Manila to earn her teaching degree, and graduated with honors in 1919. While working as a teacher, she earned a high school teachers certificate from the University of the Philippines in 1922.

After obtaining her teacher's certificate, she became a social worker for the Philippine Chapter of the American Red Cross (the Philippines was a colony of the United States at the time. The Red Cross granted her a scholarship to the United States, where she earned a masteral degree in Sociology.

She returned to the United States again in 1933 to undergo training in Girl Scouting sponsored by the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. Afterwards, she returned to the Philippines to train young women to become Girl Scout leaders, then proceeded to organize the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. On May 26, 1940, President Manuel L. Quezon signed the charter of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. Josefa became the group's first National Executive.

During World War II, Japanese forces invaded the Philippines. Escoda's husband was arrested in June 1944, and she was also arrested two months later, on August 27. She was imprisoned in Fort Santiago, the same prison as her husband. She was last seen on January 6, 1945. She was then evidently taken and held in one of the buildings of Far Eastern University occupied by the Japanese. It was presumed that she was executed.

A street and a building have been named after her and a monument has been dedicated to her memory. She is also depicted on the 1000-peso bill as one of three Filipinos martyred by the Japanese Armed Forces.

NICANOR REYES, SR.


Founder, 1st President of the Far Eastern University in downtown Manila. He envisioned a school that would promote the teaching of accounting to Filipinos, a profession formerly available only to foreigners. He wanted to prove that Filipinos were capable and trustworthy in handling the hundred of enterprises that would result with the coming of the independence of the country.

He earned an A.B. in 1915, a bachelor's degree in Commercial Science from New York University in 1917, and a M.A. in Business Administration from Columbia University the following year. He received his Ph.D. in Accountancy from Columbia - the first Filipino to do so, which was also the first degree of its kind to be awarded by Columbia. During the Pacific War, the Japanese killed Dr. Nicanor Reyes and some members of his family.

"Nicanor Reyes is one of the principal culture heroes of the Philippines, the man who put the snob camp out of campus and the snob cult out of culture." - Nick Joaquin

[Lili]

I checked out who Josefa Llanes Escoda and Dr. Nicanor Reyes are. Here is what I got from Wikipedia:

JOSEFA LLANES ESCODA

Picture below in 1,000 peso bill.

Josefa Llanes Escoda (September 20, 1898–c. January 6, 1945) was a well-known Filipino advocate of women's right of suffrage and founder of the Girls Scouts of the Philippines.

Escoda was born in Dingras, Ilocos Norte. She was the eldest of the seven children of Mercedes Madamba and Gabriel Llanes. She was valedictorian in grade school and salutatorian in high school in Ilocos Norte. She went to Philippine Normal School in Manila to earn her teaching degree, and graduated with honors in 1919. While working as a teacher, she earned a high school teachers certificate from the University of the Philippines in 1922.

After obtaining her teacher's certificate, she became a social worker for the Philippine Chapter of the American Red Cross (the Philippines was a colony of the United States at the time. The Red Cross granted her a scholarship to the United States, where she earned a masteral degree in Sociology.

She returned to the United States again in 1933 to undergo training in Girl Scouting sponsored by the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. Afterwards, she returned to the Philippines to train young women to become Girl Scout leaders, then proceeded to organize the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. On May 26, 1940, President Manuel L. Quezon signed the charter of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. Josefa became the group's first National Executive.

During World War II, Japanese forces invaded the Philippines. Escoda's husband was arrested in June 1944, and she was also arrested two months later, on August 27. She was imprisoned in Fort Santiago, the same prison as her husband. She was last seen on January 6, 1945. She was then evidently taken and held in one of the buildings of Far Eastern University occupied by the Japanese. It was presumed that she was executed.

A street and a building have been named after her and a monument has been dedicated to her memory. She is also depicted on the 1000-peso bill as one of three Filipinos martyred by the Japanese Armed Forces.

NICANOR REYES, SR.


Founder, 1st President of the Far Eastern University in downtown Manila. He envisioned a school that would promote the teaching of accounting to Filipinos, a profession formerly available only to foreigners. He wanted to prove that Filipinos were capable and trustworthy in handling the hundred of enterprises that would result with the coming of the independence of the country.

He earned an A.B. in 1915, a bachelor's degree in Commercial Science from New York University in 1917, and a M.A. in Business Administration from Columbia University the following year. He received his Ph.D. in Accountancy from Columbia - the first Filipino to do so, which was also the first degree of its kind to be awarded by Columbia. During the Pacific War, the Japanese killed Dr. Nicanor Reyes and some members of his family.

"Nicanor Reyes is one of the principal culture heroes of the Philippines, the man who put the snob camp out of campus and the snob cult out of culture." - Nick Joaquin

[Lili]

I checked out who Josefa Llanes Escoda and Dr. Nicanor Reyes are. Here is what I got from Wikipedia:

JOSEFA LLANES ESCODA

Picture below in 1,000 peso bill.

Josefa Llanes Escoda (September 20, 1898–c. January 6, 1945) was a well-known Filipino advocate of women's right of suffrage and founder of the Girls Scouts of the Philippines.

Escoda was born in Dingras, Ilocos Norte. She was the eldest of the seven children of Mercedes Madamba and Gabriel Llanes. She was valedictorian in grade school and salutatorian in high school in Ilocos Norte. She went to Philippine Normal School in Manila to earn her teaching degree, and graduated with honors in 1919. While working as a teacher, she earned a high school teachers certificate from the University of the Philippines in 1922.

After obtaining her teacher's certificate, she became a social worker for the Philippine Chapter of the American Red Cross (the Philippines was a colony of the United States at the time. The Red Cross granted her a scholarship to the United States, where she earned a masteral degree in Sociology.

She returned to the United States again in 1933 to undergo training in Girl Scouting sponsored by the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. Afterwards, she returned to the Philippines to train young women to become Girl Scout leaders, then proceeded to organize the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. On May 26, 1940, President Manuel L. Quezon signed the charter of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. Josefa became the group's first National Executive.

During World War II, Japanese forces invaded the Philippines. Escoda's husband was arrested in June 1944, and she was also arrested two months later, on August 27. She was imprisoned in Fort Santiago, the same prison as her husband. She was last seen on January 6, 1945. She was then evidently taken and held in one of the buildings of Far Eastern University occupied by the Japanese. It was presumed that she was executed.

A street and a building have been named after her and a monument has been dedicated to her memory. She is also depicted on the 1000-peso bill as one of three Filipinos martyred by the Japanese Armed Forces.

NICANOR REYES, SR.


Founder, 1st President of the Far Eastern University in downtown Manila. He envisioned a school that would promote the teaching of accounting to Filipinos, a profession formerly available only to foreigners. He wanted to prove that Filipinos were capable and trustworthy in handling the hundred of enterprises that would result with the coming of the independence of the country.

He earned an A.B. in 1915, a bachelor's degree in Commercial Science from New York University in 1917, and a M.A. in Business Administration from Columbia University the following year. He received his Ph.D. in Accountancy from Columbia - the first Filipino to do so, which was also the first degree of its kind to be awarded by Columbia. During the Pacific War, the Japanese killed Dr. Nicanor Reyes and some members of his family.

"Nicanor Reyes is one of the principal culture heroes of the Philippines, the man who put the snob camp out of campus and the snob cult out of culture." - Nick Joaquin

[Hawayano]

For more information on Nicanor Reyes: Lourdes Reyes-Montinola, the daughter of founder Nicanor Reyes, is still an active part of FEU. She has published an extensive study on piña fabric as well as her World War II memoirs in Breaking the Silence (UP Press).

[Hawayano]

For more information on Nicanor Reyes: Lourdes Reyes-Montinola, the daughter of founder Nicanor Reyes, is still an active part of FEU. She has published an extensive study on piña fabric as well as her World War II memoirs in Breaking the Silence (UP Press).

[Hawayano]

For more information on Nicanor Reyes: Lourdes Reyes-Montinola, the daughter of founder Nicanor Reyes, is still an active part of FEU. She has published an extensive study on piña fabric as well as her World War II memoirs in Breaking the Silence (UP Press).

[Animo]

I wonder what is her relationship with Sr. Virtute he is from the Montinola clan. Here is the family website: http://www.montinola.org/family/

[Animo]

I wonder what is her relationship with Sr. Virtute he is from the Montinola clan. Here is the family website: http://www.montinola.org/family/