The Bahay na Pula (Tagalog, 'Red House') is a former hacienda in San Ildefonso, Bulacan in the Philippines. The site is remembered for the mass rapes and murders committed by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Jul 23, 2019 · As punishment for the town, the women were brought into the infamous red house where they were raped routinely and repeatedly. Some of them were girls as young as eight or nine years old. Sisters Lita and Mileng from Mapanique were just two of the women who survived abuse inside this house.

THE HISTORICALLY controversial Ilusorio house or bahay na pula (red house) in San Ildefonso town, Bulacan province, has been demolished.

Mar 18, 2023 · The coalition advocating justice for comfort women, or victims of sexual slavery during World War II, wants “Bahay na Pula” (Red House), the home in Bulacan province where they were abused by their Japanese captors, turned into a shrine.

The Bahay na Pula, also known as the Red House, is a former hacienda located in San Ildefonso, Bulacan, Philippines. It was constructed in 1929 on the lands of the Ilusorio family as a family mansion with two storeys.[1] It was made largely out of …

Survivors, now elderly, gather with their families and supporters at the “Bahay na Pula” or “Red House” in San Ildefonso, Bulacan, to offer flowers and remember a past that remains ...

Jan 28, 2016 · Here scores of young women and girls from Bulacan and Pampanga were held for months and used as sex slaves by Japanese soldiers. It is a house with a dark, painful history that has been pushed to the light, thanks to the brave, aging women who chose to emerge from more than half a century of silence and grieving.

Aug 6, 2012 · Bahay na Pula named that way because literally the whole color of the house is red. There are some “rumors” that there are living spirits inside the house and seem to be a haunted house for everyone who seen it.

Oct 7, 2024 · The Bahay na Pula, also known as the Red House, is a former hacienda located in San Ildefonso, Bulacan, Philippines. It was constructed in 1929 on the lands of the Ilusorio family as a family mansion with two storeys.

Mar 17, 2023 · Big tamarind, camachile, and duhat trees surrounded this house that the townspeople called “Bahay na Pula” or the Red House. It reminded me of a grand old lady wearing a shawl, the color of a fading roseate sunset.