War and Forgiveness is The Sharing House and Holland's Black Page – two documentaries which tell stories about wartime atrocities. In a co-production by WNYC, Radio Netherlands and Soundprint we present two sides of the equation – the victims and the perpetrators. Both stories include oral history from seventy and eighty year olds.

Korean Sharing House
Produced by Judith Kampfner, WNYC
Judith Kampfner went to a communal home in the hillside outside Seoul South Korea to spend time with ten former "Comfort Women". As young girls they were abducted by Japanese soldiers and forced into prostitution. After the story of the comfort women became public in the 1990's, a charity set up "The Sharing House."
» Sharing House transcript
» View a slideshow of Comfort Women's art
» My Visit to the Sharing House
» Seoul Searching A Blog from Kampfner's 2003 visit to Seoul

Holland’s Black Page
Produced by Dheera Sujan, Radio Netherlands
Dheera Sujan traces the stories of four former soldiers who tortured and killed Indonesian prisoners. Now in their seventies, they remember the details of quieting an open rebellion in the late 1940’s and how they had to live in shame with the secrets.
» Visit Radio Netherlands and Holland's Black Page

This hour-long documentary is a co-production of Soundprint, WNYC and Radio Netherlands.
Distribution was made possible, in part, through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts