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.
Source: nytimes.com
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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