![]() After the horrific ordeal of living as a prisoner of war, I was quiet and introverted, but the restored gospel had brought me out of myself. In Marie's own words, "I remember one day before my mother passed away, she said, 'Mary, this church has changed your life.' And it was true. And in 1980, the couple saved enough money to be sealed in the London temple with their three sons and one daughter. ![]() Seven years after she joined the Church, her husband was baptized. Following World War II, she and her family moved to Holland and then to South Africa, where she raised her family and joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ![]() Marie's experiences from the war told in an upcoming book, Under the Java Moon by Heather B. Her family was miraculously reunited at the end of the war, but her little brother Georgie died shortly thereafter from the effects of the camp, and the memories of that time have never left. Her father survived on the Java Sea for five days after his Dutch minesweeper was torpedoed by a Japanese destroyer. She remarkably survived in a camp where deaths were happening every day. Marie Elliott, known by her friends as Mary, survived three years as a prisoner of war when she was just a little girl.
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