During World War II, forced civilian labourers known as rōmusha were used by the Imperial Japanese Army to build the infamous Thai-Burma Railway. Shirlene Noordin pieces together what happened to her grandfather in the three years he worked on the Death Railway.

Shirlene is the founder of Phish Communications, a communications consultancy specialising in arts and culture.

Read the transcript and the original BiblioAsia article on biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/podcast/about.

This episode of BiblioAsia+ was hosted by Jimmy Yap and produced by Soh Gek Han. Sound engineering was done by Gibson Analytics. The background music "Di Tanjong Katong" was composed by Osman Ahmad and performed by Chords Haven. Special thanks to Shirlene Noordin and her family for sharing their story.

BiblioAsia+ is a podcast about Singapore history by the National Library of Singapore.