After surviving World War II and the evacuation from Manchuria, Nobuyo Avery faced the biggest challenge of her life when she was pregnant with her third child and found out she had tuberculosis.

When World War II ended, my mother and my siblings and I were reunited with my dad. He was in Bandung in a camp.  They let us live in a big house right next to his camp. Many of the men stayed in the camp because there was nowhere for them to go. I was six years old when the war started for us, and now I was nine. My parents had eight children, and we all survived.