Rudi Hoenson

Rudi Hoenson: Then came 3 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Japan. , according to Times Colonist. The 90-year-old shies away from making the details public, lets slip only a story about losing five teeth three upper, two lower to a rifle butt in the mouth, the cost of not bowing to the satisfaction of a guard. Rudi Hoenson was just a teenager when captured during the Second World War, a Dutch soldier swept up in the invasion of what is now Indonesia. They were brutal, he says. I went in, I was about 130 pounds. I came out, I was less than 80. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.