Civilian Internment

Straws in the Wind

Determined not to allow my parents' sacrifices to fade away into the mists of time, I resolved to do...

I Bowed So Low, They Didn't Notice Me!

Her fatherwas Mr.Pino and a Dutch Government Official in Indonesia, which was still a Dutch colony at that...

Phyllis Briggs's War - Further notes from my Diary [P.Thom : Part 8]

Great indignation as Fatty insisted on the water carriers filling his bath and water tank, and then they...

Paul Elwell's Story - Part 3 - War Service

So by Army Council instruction, “Eichwald” became “Elwell”, the name Richard had...

From Siberia to Arnhem via Scotland

In January ’42 Franek is accepted into the army and travels to Kraznodzk and then by oil tanker...

Stratford Invasion! [by Ministries and GIs]

1 — Edward Booker, born 1902 and his wife, Lilian, born 1909, talk about the Government Treasury...

Interning the Innocents

From Mein Kampf (1922) onwards, it was blatantly clear that his war against Jewry and his determination to...

Rickie's Story

I was born in London of Italian parents and my life changed when World War II started, as it did for...

My Camp Diary [M.Colley]

Miss Briggs was the daughter of Zillaq, Shelagh was the lover, Mrs Mac the mother, Trina and I was the...

Deadly Manna

Laurens van der Post mentions somewhere that he saw documents with plans to turn the internment camps on...

Concentration camp. Internment Camp

A monk suddenly addressed the group of tourists, "Is there a German among you?.. The exchange rate for...

Early Childhood - Wartime and Before

I can remember standing on my grandparents balcony, they having had to move home twice already, and...

Japanese Internment Camp in China

It was discovered after the war that the Japanese had put the Red Cross parcels in warehouses and they were...

Conscientious Objector

I was in Winson Green and in Stafford on a longer sentence because I believe it is wrong to kill —...

The Story of the Italians in Britain WW2

Well, if we look at the Italian surnames in the Arts, Business and Commerce in Scotland we will found that...

“Ode To All the Decent Women in the Dutch Indies”

Ode To All the Decent Women in the Dutch Indies” Below follows the anonymous poem dedicated “to...

Not a Sound

Bran is given a magic cauldron by a grateful guest. Gulf syndrome, there's no such thing" or in any...

From Ukraine Village School to Forced Labour

Ivan P Barabash was born in the town of Dybovyazorvka, Konotopski Rayion, Sumska Oblast, to a fairly well...

Ukrainian Miller Forced to Become a Miner in Germany

His father wanted him to become a cobbler but Wasyl was insistent that he wanted to become a miller, his...

Capture

My friend Maria and her family survived the uprising and lived a few stations from Warsaw. After we had our...

Borland's World War II Part 2

Rothesay as a Military Base Rothesay was a submarine base and had HMS Cyclops supply vessel moored in the...

Snatched from Ukraine to Work on a German Pig Farm

This was always infested with rats as they were attracted by the pig food....

Irony: An Early Morning Job Prevents Internment

My father felt that if it was important enough the Police would call back; he knew very well that the...

I Became a Number

The men were interned separately, we only saw him once in a camp near a town in East Java. When death...

Childhood Memories

We went to school at Didlington Hall which we shared with evacuee children... The owner of Didlington Hall...

Easily Led

My Uncle went to ground in Weston Super Mare with a distant elderly relative - he only lasted a few weeks...