Conrad Meijer was a civilian Dutch teenager, but that didn't keep him from ending up in a Japanese POW camp. https://ww2thebigone.com/2016/12/26/wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time/
That is a remarkable story. How easily he could have died and yet survived rto have what appears to be a very good life. Makes mine more that quite dull ! there are probably many such stories out there that will go untold or recorded. Good that this one did not.. thank you for posting . Gaines