Max Pearson

The library team consisted of a group of 20 to 40 young men. Each of them would rummage amongst the rubble as they went about their daily lives. If they did happen to stumble across a book, they'd call someone back at the basement. There is no public transportation, of course, and there is some cars, but sometimes there is no fuel to use these cars. So we'd use, sometimes we'd use bicycles, sometimes we'd use, we're bad at

Together they collected 15,000 books that were brought down to the basement library, stacked neatly according to author and genre. Inside each book the librarians wrote the original owner's name if they knew it, or the building and street name the book was found in, in case the owners ever wanted to return home or retrieve their books.

Se oli turvallinen paikka meiltä ja yliopistolle. Jotkut tulivat tuomaan kirjoja, joita olivat tehty aiemmin. Jotkut tulivat lukea kirjoja taustalla, koska se on ilmaista, turvallista ja kiinnostavaa. Jotkut toimivat tätä paikkaa.

Ja siellä on myös se sosiaalinen aspekti, koska sinulla on ystäviä ja ihmisiä, joilla on yhteistyötä. Kirjailu on tullut paikalle toivoa ja suunnittelua tulevaisuuteen.

Ihmiset olivat kiinnostuneita muuttumaan, muuttumaan regiimin. Yksi tärkeimmistä filosofeista oli Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hän kirjoittaa monia kirjoja French Revolutionista. Ihmiset alkoivat lukea näitä kirjoja, kirjoja sosiaalisia kontraatteja, kirjoja revolutioista, demokratisia muutoksia, tarinoita siitä, mitä meni väärin, mitä meni hyvin, mitä pitäisi tehdä.

With so much political turmoil and no civic space, Malik was involved in running a discussion group in the library. Young boys and young men, they were exposed to many new propagandas. So let's gather and discuss this political change or discuss democracy. Let's discuss, do we want our country to be a republic or we want our country to be other kind of government?

The people who came to the library were from all walks of life. Some were fighters who would take their books with them to swap at the front line. Others were practicing doctors and dentists at the field hospital. Unable to complete their studies under the siege, they read anatomy and pharmaceutical books from the library. For four years, this library has been the beating heart of rebel resistance in Dorea. But then on August 26, 2016, everything changed again.

The Syrian army says all rebel fighters have now abandoned the town of Daraya on the outskirts of Damascus. Of the day they announced that the city is going to force evacuate to exit northwest Syria, I went back to our media office, we collected our stuff, and we were like so overwhelmed. I went to the library, and my last visit was one week before the forced evacuation of the city.

It was only days after Malik had left Daraya, sitting in the city of Idlib, he watched the news coverage. Government soldiers discovering and looting the secret library and its thousands of books they had collected. Their four-year-long well-kept secret was out.

It was so sad. We had that emotional connect with these books. But at the same time I felt like at least we preserved this book. We saved these books for a certain amount of time for these four years. But it was the bad guys who stole them and sell them. Malik now lives in Turkey. He remembers reading a sociology book at the library in which he learned to term the third place.

So we have our house, then we have the work, but the third place, when we gather us all, whenever we want to do whatever we want, we miss it. People who once lived in Daraya have begun buying back their books that were sold at flea markets following the civil war, identifying them by the secret library's handwritten notes inside the covers. Surya Elango was speaking to Malek Al-Rafai, the young underground librarian of Daraya.

Ennen sitä aloittiin toinen maailmanvaihto Päivässä. Vaikuttaminen oli ollut Euroopassa enemmän kuin kaksi vuotta. Se ei ollut niin kauan ennen kuin japanilaiset sattuivat Malan maailmassa, että maailma Päivässä alkoi. Jacqueline Payne on kuullut naisen, joka oli kiinnostunut tämän japanilaisen väittelyyn.

Se on juuri sydänpäivän jälkeen, 8.5.1941, ja japanilaiset sotilaat ovat juuri saapuneet Kotobaru-paikalle Malayassa. Ennen kuin yhdestä tuntia japanilaiset sotilaat aloittavat heidän yllätysarvoaan USA-sotilaan Hawaiiin Pearl Harbouriin. Dorothy Varayan on 9-vuotias ja elää Malacca Cityin Malayassa ympärillä hänen perheensä, yhdessä 9 isänsä.

Yhden päivän jälkeen voimakkaaminen, ja se oli ehkä silloin, kun ihmiset alkoivat tuntemaan. Ja sitten ei ollut muuta kuin vähän. Isä tiesi, että japanilaiset olisivat tulleet sydänpäin. Rainsa oli jatkuva, jotta Singapuraan päästäisiin ja brittisen maapallon neutralisoimaan. Malayaan järjestelmät lisääntyivät, kun japanilaiset yrittivät kontrolloida ympäristöä. Japanilaiset voimakkaat olivat hyvin hauskoja. He pitivät droonit.

Lapset sanoivat, kun se oli japanilainen ja sitten muu, koska hänellä oli erityinen ääni.

He must have heard that before the bombs fell. Allied troops retreat quickly. Just hours later, Japanese invasion forces begin their advance to capture Singapore. They make swift progress through dense jungle and down the western coast of the Malay Peninsula. Their route goes directly past Dorothy's house. We didn't know what it was all about when they were going down our road, truck after truck after truck.

Japanese came later in the day. They didn't come in the daylight. They came in the dark. Sunrise in Malaya, over the jungle in which some of the fiercest fighting of the war is taking place. Near the border of Thailand a cyclist detachment is peddling to the station. Reinforcements to stem the advance of the Japanese towards Singapore. Japanese troops cross Malaya quickly. Using bikes and light tanks they outpace the Allies. It's night time when they reach Dorothy's house.

They were already in our houses before we knew what was happening. And then they were all over us, all over the street. It was a night of horror. We could see from our bedroom windows. And because there was so much noise, they were only interested in hitting the Chinese and taking them away, all the men away.

Ja se oli hämmästyttävää. Se on Dorothyn suomalaiset lääkärit, jotka saivat jotain japanilaisista sotilasta. He jättivät heidät yksin, melko yksin. He eivät haastaneet heitä. Mutta suomalaiset suomalaiset. Siinä oli suomalainen nainen, joka oli ystäväni isäni.

She had a very big house. She was wealthy, I think. And the Japanese just went into that place and used it as a toilet and so on. And then she got so frightened, she ran out to our house. They terrorized the Chinese people, did they? God, yes, they did. They did all sorts of these terrible things.