Review: 'The Island of Extraordinary Captives,' by Simon Parkin
In Simon Parkin’s riveting account, a shameful chapter in British history is also a testament to creativity and hope.
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives by Simon Parkin review – light amid darkness
The story of how art and intellect triumphed in Britain’s bleak internment camps for ‘enemy aliens’ on the Isle of Man
Source: theguardian.com
The Island of Extraordinary Captives review – fascinating history of an interned artist
Simon Parkin unearths the story of German Jewish refugee Peter Fleischmann, who became a painter while a prisoner in a second world war camp on the Isle of Man
Source: theguardian.com
The refugees from Hitler's Germany interned by Churchill
Dave Hannigan, author of Barbed Wire University, on a remarkable WWII story
Source: irishtimes.com
How the Isle of Man became the Second World War's strangest – and smartest – prison camp
Jewish refugees and Oxbridge academics were detained as 'enemy aliens'. Soon the prisoners were singing Fidelio and lecturing on philosophy
Source: telegraph.co.uk
'I remember the feeling of insult': when Britain imprisoned its wartime refugees | Second world war
<strong>The long read</strong>: After giving safe harbour to thousands of people fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe, the British government decided that some of them could be a threat – and locked all of them up. For many, it was a betrayal on the part of their supposed liberators
Source: theguardian.com
British WW2 prison camp where every inmate was a genius
There were among 1,200 inmates of British POW P camp (pictured), known as Hutchinson because it had been built on Hutchinson Square in Douglas, Isle of Man.
Source: dailymail.co.uk