Second World War Internment in the UK – September 1939 to July 1940

Early WWII Internment Camps in the UK

A talk given April 25, 2021, which focuses on the often overlooked temporary camps on the British mainland which most of the so-called ‘enemy aliens’ of the Second World War passed through before being sent to the Isle of Man in 1940. Internees were held in prisons, holiday camps, racecourses, derelict mills and many other makeshift locations from anything from a few days to several months.

Camps discussed include Clacton, Seaton, Paignton, Lingfield, Holloway Prison, Kempton Park, Prees Heath, Sutton Coldfield, Warth Mill, and Huyton.

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Warth Mills: An Untold Story

An event organised by the Insiders/Outsiders Festival with the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) as part of Refugee Week 2020.

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Panellists: Rachel Pistol – Author, Internment during the Second World War

Richard Shaw – Warth Mills Project

Anna Nyburg – Author, From Leipzig to London: The Life and Work of the Émigré Artist Hellmuth Weissenborn.

Monica Bohm-Duchen – Insiders/Outsiders Festival

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Internment of refugees during World War II

Milim and the Leeds Branch of the Jewish Historical Society hosted a webinar with Dr Rachel Pistol on May 4, 2020.

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The talk and Q&A session offer an introduction to the policy of Second World War internment in Britain, life in the camps, and the experiences and memories of former internees.

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Twitter Conference

War Through Other Stuff Twitter Conference 2018 on art in World War II internment. See the thread here.