Stories categorised in 'Civilian Internment'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Our group was divided here, sixteen were ordered to remain at a bombed station, to be collected, the other...
Robke and I were taken to the hotel Der Nederlanden in Batavia and were given a room with a real bed close...
Austria — the “Austrian Auschluss” - in which several of her family perished, she...
The internees quickly re-named the ship 'H.M. Prison Ship the Lady of Man'. This was due to the...
The internment camp at Vittel housed about two thousand internees, mostly Americans, Russians, British and...
After attending Catholic schools in Belgium, including a convent school in Liege, she then worked as a...
It was at this time, I believe, that many Polish officers were executed in a camp called Katyn. General...
The small, burly figure of my dad was framed in the light as he went to the front door and asked: "Who...
In fact, most things were forbidden after a while and the object-lesson which I have described in another...
The same thing happened some 4-5 months before, to most of the men of this town, my father and my uncle...
My father was Welsh, my mother was Jersey, and the Germans interned you if there was someone in your family...
Later a school friend helped him with a job at the Naval Headquarters in Bandoeng, he ended up as a...
On a dry, dusty, shadeless field in Weihsien, North China, fifteen hundred Allied civilian internees were...
He always checked in with the German Embassy in San Francisco every week to get the news of what was going...
His crime was that he had been an active member of Oswald Mosley's British Union and was obviously...