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
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The story of how art and intellect triumphed in Britain’s bleak internment camps for ‘enemy aliens’ on the Isle of Man
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
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.