Internment

Some useful links for information on internment of Jewish refugees in the Second World War

By no means a definitive list, but hopefully a useful set of starting points

Isle of Man

Sent in by a US Kitchener descendant – a short, informal account of internment camps on the Isle of Man

It’s more focused on other types of internees , but has some interesting – and rare – footage of Isle of Man camps, alongside maps and items of local colour.


British Library, Jack Taylor, Blog, 09 January 2020

Internment during the Second World War – Part One: the diary of a Jewish refugee confined by Britain

https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/01/internment-during-the-second-world-war-part-one-the-diary-of-a-jewish-refugee-confined-by-britain.html


Canada 

Montreal Holocaust Museum

http://www.enemyaliens.ca/accueil-home-eng.html


Christine Whitehouse, PhD thesis, “You’ll Get Used to It!”:
The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940–43

https://curve.carleton.ca/system/files/etd/aaba4408-456d-42ce-9e15-bb58f8ce36eb/etd_pdf/1c9b75bb7a9299f29bca6c6f9c4c542b/whitehouse-youllgetusedtoittheinternmentofjewishrefugees.pdf


Andrea Strutz, Interned as ‘Enemy Aliens’: Jewish Refugees from Austria, Germany and Italy in Canada, in Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories, Vol. 20


Library and Archives, Canada

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/holocaust/Pages/holocaust-research-guide.aspx


Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

https://www.vhec.org/travelling_EnemyAliens.html


Sarah Zimbalatti, PhD thesis, Constructing A Lively Community in the Midst of Oppression: Jewish Refugees Interned in Canada During WWII

https://ontariojewisharchives.org/cms_uploads/pdf/Zimbalatti_-_Jewish_Internees_in_Canada.pdf


Canadian exhibit recalls Jewish refugees imprisoned with Nazis, Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/canadian-exhibit-recalls-jewish-refugees-imprisoned–with-nazis/


Julie Masis, In WWII, an anti-Semitic Canada kept Jewish ‘enemy aliens’ in barbed wire camps, Times of Israel, 16 August 2020

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-wwii-an-anti-semitic-canada-kept-jewish-enemy-aliens-in-barbed-wire-camps/


Internment Camp B: Jewish Refugees, https://www.junobeach.org/podcast/internment-camp-b-jewish-refugees-with-andrew-theobald/


Australia

State Library of Victoria

https://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/australia-wwii/home-wii/refugee-internment


National Museum of Australia

https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/hmt-dunera-arrives-australia


National Archives of Australia

https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-citizenship/wartime-internment-camps-australia


Migration Heritage Centre, New South Wales

https://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/objectsthroughtime/dunera/index.html


Anthony Grenville, Internment in Australia, AJR Journal, Vol. 13, no. 7, 2011

https://ajr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2011-July.pdf


Alexandra Ludewig, The Last of the Kindertransports. Britain to Australia, 1940, in The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39, 2012

https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789401208864/B9789401208864-s007.xml