This paper will fill the gaps left by traditional historians who ignored women and their experiences and ideas. It will try to retrieve part of women's history guided by the framework Apilado (1996) used in her study on Ilocano women and the revolutionary era.
Specifically, the paper puts in writing the oral accounts of underclass women who lived to tell the tale of their respective life as survivors of the Japanese occupation in San Isidro, Leyte. Hopefully, this exploratory work will inspire others to undertake local/oral history designed to retrieve women's past so that Philippine history can be enriched and made whole.