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unusual facts about internment camps



Battle of Cut Knife

Lieutenant-Colonel William Otter survived the battle and remained a prominent figure in the military, commanding The Royal Canadian Regiment in the Boer War, and acting as Director of Internment Camps in World War I.

Bayard Rustin

Rustin traveled to California to help protect the property of Japanese Americans who had been imprisoned in internment camps.

Other Losses

Other Losses is a 1989 book by Canadian writer James Bacque, in which Bacque alleges that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower intentionally caused the deaths by starvation or exposure of around a million German prisoners of war held in Western internment camps briefly after the Second World War.

SS Winnipeg

The Chilean President Pedro Aguirre Cerda had named the poet Pablo Neruda Special Consul in Paris for Immigration, and he was charged with what he called "the noblest mission I have ever undertaken": shipping the Spanish refugees, who had been housed by the French in internment camps, to Chile.


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Bolzano Transit Camp

He was tracked down in Vancouver, only days before the trial was to begin, by a reporter working for the Vancouver Sun, who acted upon information provided by the Associazione nazionale ex deportati politici nei campi nazisti (ANED) (National Association of former political deportees to Nazi internment camps).

History of the Jews in Australia

Printmaker and projection artist Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack graduate and professor of the Bauhaus was deported to Australia as an "enemy alien" on the ship HMT Dunera, spending time in internment camps in Hay, Orange and Tatura, before being sponsored for Australian citizenship by (Sir) James Darling, headmaster of Geelong Church of England Grammar School.

Janet M. Suzuki

She was born at a time when other Japanese were being placed in internment camps (Japanese American internment).

Kamekichi Tokita

Paintings of his were included in 1994's The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945 at the Japanese American National Museum, in Los Angeles; and in 1995's Japanese and Japanese American Painters in the United States, 1896-1945: A Half Century of Hope and Suffering, which showed in Japan at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Oita Prefectural Art Hall, and the Hiroshima Museum of Art.

Linda Agostini

Tony Agostini had recently returned to Sydney after being held in internment camps at Orange, Hay and Loveday from 1940 to 1944.

LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii

Klemperer speaks about the British "concentration camps" in Africa during the Second Boer War, which were internment camps, and bore "a taste of vacation camp", according to him.

Polska Siła Zbrojna

Approximately 15,000 of them were confined in internment camps in Beniaminów and Szczypiorno, while almost 3,000 were drafted to the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Tim Toyama

Toyama teamed up with Aaron Woolfolk to write the play Bronzeville, about Los Angeles's Little Tokyo during World War II when African Americans became the primary residents there after Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps.