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Bookmark or Share- A Story Of Torture And Forgiveness That Spans A Half-CenturyIn 1942, the Scotsman, Eric Lomax, had been a prisoner of war and a victim of torture. Takashi Nagase was a Japanese soldier and an English-language interpreter for the men who tortured Lomax.
- Eric Lomax, River Kwai Prisoner Who Forgave, Dies at 93 - The ...Eric Lomax, a former British soldier who was tortured by the Japanese while he was a prisoner during World War II and half a century later forgave one of his tormentors — an experience he...
- Eric Lomax - WikipediaEric Sutherland Lomax (30 May 1919 – 8 October 2012) [1] was a British Army officer who was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. He is most notable for his book, The Railway Man, about his experiences before, during, and after World War II, which won the 1996 NCR Book Award and the PEN/Ackerley Prize.
- Eric Lomax: The Railway Man author dies aged 93 - BBCEric Lomax, originally from Edinburgh, was captured by the Japanese during the fall of Singapore in 1942. He became one of the thousands of servicemen used as slave labour to build the railway....
- This former POW forgave his former torturer - AleteiaThis is the moment, 50 years after World War II, when former British soldier Eric Lomax met with his Japanese torturer, Nagase Takashi, and decided to forgive him. Lomax was 19 years old when...
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