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Barbed Wire University: The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World

By Dave Hannigan

Book information

Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2021
ISBN
2021036028, 2021036029, 9781493057702, 9781493063529, 1493057707
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3852330 bytes)
Pages
232\233
Library
Nonfiction Ebook Pack JUL22 - PHC
Time added
2022-07-10 17:45:47

Description

Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill’s internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. These were men who had fled Hitler’s Germany, found refuge in Britain and then in the hysteria of 1940 were held in captivity as a perceived security threat. They turned the camp―Camp Hutchinson―into a school, concert hall and artistic community. Using memoirs and diaries, some of which have only recently become available in archives, Dave Hannigan pieces together a richly detailed account of what these remarkable men did during their time in captivity. This is a forgotten corner of World War II and the way these men constructed a Bohemian idyll in the middle of the Irish Sea, their freedom taken from them, is an extraordinary tale of grit and creativity.

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