The history of the World Wars or any other armed conflicts in the world almost always chronicles the ‘heroic’ endeavours of the soldiers and the dissemination of political propaganda while deliberately drawing a veil over the trauma of the common people who were purposefully used as pawns in this game of power politics. It is in one of those glossed-over pages of the history of the Second World War that we can find the ignored and silenced stories of the “comfort women”, the sarcastically euphemistic term that refers to the group of women who were coerced into wartime sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army. By analysing the memoir Fifty Years of Silence by Jan Ruff O’Herne, herself a comfort woman, in the converging context of trauma and memory studies, this paper aims to shed light on the long-lasting impact of trauma on human memory and the complex interplay between remembrance and silence. This paper will attempt to interpret the recollection of the trauma as reflected in O’Herne’s memoir through the pluralistic lens of trauma studies, with special reference to the works of Michelle Balaev. It is expected that the paper will elucidate the diverse and multifaceted aspects of trauma, contextualise them within a broader framework of trauma theory, and contribute to a deeper understanding of the human response to trauma.