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Port Erin Women's Detention Camp
Port Erin Women's Detention Camp was a World War II internment camp on the Isle of Man at Port Erin. It was Europe's only all-female internment camp. Notable internees included Dora Diamant the lover of Franz Kafka in the last year of his life, and Fay Taylour, champion motorcycle, speedway and racing car driver. Other camps Other WWII internment camps at on the Isle of Man included the Hutchinson Internment Camp in Douglas, noted as “the artists’ camp”, the Metropole Internment Camp also in Douglas, predominantly for Italians, Sefton Internment Camp on the promenade in Douglas, the Peel Internment Camp, and Mooragh Internment Camp in Ramsey. Rushen Camp was later established for couples, but run by civilian owners who remained in the camp, instead of the military. Notable internees * Hedy Bienenfeld Hedwig "Hedy" Bienenfeld, also known after marriage as Hedy Wertheimer (17 October 1907 – 24 September 1976) was an Austrian Olympic swimmer. She won a bronze medal in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Erin
Port Erin ( gv, Purt Çhiarn, meaning ''lord's port'') is a seaside village in the south-west of the Isle of Man, in the historic parish of Rushen. It was previously a seaside resort before the decline of the tourist trade. Administratively it is designated as a village district, with its own board of commissioners. The district covers around 1 square mile, and is adjacent to: Port St Mary to the south-east; the main part of Arbory and Rushen parish district to the north and east; the sea to the west; and an exclave of Arbory and Rushen parish district (including the village of Cregneash) to the south. Following recent residential expansion, the settlement is now contiguous with that of Port St Mary, and on 18 July 2018 Tynwald authorised a public enquiry into the proposed expansion of the district boundary to include some of this expansion. The village was twinned with Latour-de-France. Demographics * Population (2011 census) 3,530 * Adjacent village: Port St Mary * Largest s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Diamant
Dora Diamant (Dwojra Diament, also Dymant) (4 March 1898 – 15 August 1952) is best remembered as the lover of the writer Franz Kafka and the person who kept some of his last writings in her possession until they were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933. This retention was against the wishes of Kafka, who had requested shortly before his death that they be destroyed. Biography From a Jewish family, Diamant was born in Pabianice, Poland on 4 March 1898, the daughter of Herschel Dymant, a successful small businessman and a devout follower of the Hasidic dynasty in Ger. After her mother's death around 1912, the family relocated to Będzin, near the German border. At the end of World War I, after helping to raise her ten siblings, Dora refused to marry and was sent to Kraków to study to be a kindergarten teacher. She ran away and went to Berlin, where she worked in the Berlin Jewish community as a teacher and seamstress in an orphanage (and changed the spelling of her name to D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fay Taylour
Fay Taylour (5 April 1904 – 2 August 1983), known as Flying Fay, was an Irish motorcyclist in the late 1920s and a champion speedway rider. She switched to racing cars in 1931. She was interned as a fascist during the Second World War. After the war, she managed to enter some races in the UK, Ireland, Sweden and Australia and took up midget car racing in America until she retired in the late 1950s. Early life Helen Frances Taylour, known as Fay, was born in Birr, County Offaly, to Helen Allardice (''née'' Webb) (1868/9–1925) and Herbert Fetherstonhaugh Taylour (1868/9–1952), a former colonel in the British army. Her family was well off by the standards of the time: her father was a district inspector in the RIC and they lived at Oxmanton Hall in the centre of Birr. One of her maternal aunts, Hilda Webb, was an active suffragette and a young Fay was taken to visit her when she was imprisoned in Holloway gaol. Her uncle maternal George Webb, was a mathematician and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hutchinson Internment Camp
Hutchinson Internment Camp was a World War II internment camp in Douglas, Isle of Man, particularly noted as "the artists' camp" due to the thriving artistic and intellectual life of its internees. Location and structure The camp consisted of 39 houses around Hutchinson Square close to Broadway in Douglas on the Isle of Man. Because of the large number of people interned in the relatively small number of houses, internees were required to share beds. One of these houses, Arrandale, came to be used as the camp's sick bay. Major H. O. Daniel was in command of the camp until he was promoted elsewhere. He was a popular leader and was responsible for enabling much of the creative activities of the camp. History Following the compulsory evictions of tenants in the properties and the erection of two barbed wire fences around the perimeter (in the manner of Mooragh Camp in Ramsey, opened in May), Hutchinson Camp opened in the second week of July 1940.Chappell, p. 53 It initially had onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropole Internment Camp
A metropole (from the Greek ''metropolis'' for "mother city") is the homeland, central territory or the sovereign state , state exercising Power (social and political) , power over a colonial empire. From the 19th century, the English language , English term ''metropole'' was mainly used in the scope of the British Empire, British, Spanish Empire, Spanish, French colonial empire, French, Portuguese Empire, Portuguese, and Ottoman Empire, Ottoman empires to designate those empires' European territories, as opposed to their colonial or overseas territories. Roman Empire The metropole of the Roman Empire was Italy. As the original homeland of the Romans, it maintained a special status which made it "not a Roman province, province, but the ''Dominus (title), Domina'' (ruler) of the provinces". Italy was federated by the Romans in the third century BC. Unlike the overseas and ultramontane territories conquered by the Romans, Italy, due to the presence of Rome in the peninsula, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sefton Internment Camp
Sefton Camp was one of the World War II internment camps in the Isle of Man, where Italian, German and Finnish residents of Britain were held. The camp was located in the Sefton Buildings, built during the 1890s next to the Gaiety Theatre, on the promenade in Douglas. It was one of the smallest of the ten internment camps on the island during World War II, with only 307 residents. Of these, 42 were invalids. The Sefton Camp held prisoners from October 1940 until March 1941. The camp had a newspaper, the ''Sefton Review'', published fortnightly from November 1940 to 3 February 1941. Notable editorial pieces concern its letters sent to notable politicians and public figures to try to find a sympathetic ear for their plight. It also wrote to the Mayor of Coventry offering toys as gifts to families stricken by the bombings A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Concentration And Internment Camps
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country. In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it was occupied by a foreign power. Certain types of camps are excluded from this list, particularly refugee camps operated or endorsed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Additionally, prisoner-of-war camps that do not also intern non-combatants or civilians are treated under a separate category. Argentina During the Dirty War which accompanied the 1976–1983 military dictatorship, there were over 300 places throughout the country that served as secret detention centres, where people were interrogated, tortured, and killed. Prisoners were often forced to hand and sign ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mooragh Internment Camp
Mooragh Camp was a World War II internment camp in Ramsey, Isle of Man, in operation from May 1940 until September 1945. It was the first such camp on the island since World War I. The opening of the camp Following an announcement of the planned camp in the Manx newspapers in the second week of May 1789, official letters were sent out on 19 May to inform occupants of all the houses along the Mooragh Promenade that their houses were to be requisitioned to form a camp to intern enemy aliens. The residents had to be out of their houses by 18 May, and they were to leave behind all furniture, bedding, linen, cutlery, crockery and utensils. Some thirty boarding houses and hotels along the Mooragh Promenade were requisitioned, as well as a number of bungalows nearby to be used for billeting the military guard. The camp also included the Mooragh golf links, which were to be used as a recreation ground for the internees. The road leading from the swing bridge to the Mooragh Park was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rushen Camp
Rushen ( ; gv, Rosien), formally Kirk Christ Rushen, is one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Isle of Man. It is located in the south of the island (part of the traditional ''South Side'' division) in the sheading of the same name. Administratively, part of the historic parish of Rushen, and the majority of the population, is now covered by the village districts of Port Erin and Port St Mary. As a result, there is an exclave of the parish district which includes the Calf of Man. Other settlements in the parish include Cregneash. Local government For the purposes of local government, the majority of the area of the historic parish formed a single parish district, with Commissioners, but this has now been amalgamated with Arbory. (See Arbory and Rushen.) Since the 1880s, two areas of the historic parish of Rushen have been the two separate village districts of Port Erin and Port St Mary, each with its own village commissioners. The Captain of the Parish (since 1998) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedy Bienenfeld
Hedwig "Hedy" Bienenfeld, also known after marriage as Hedy Wertheimer (17 October 1907 – 24 September 1976) was an Austrian Olympic swimmer. She won a bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1927 European Aquatics Championships. She competed in the same discipline at the 1928 Summer Olympics. At the 1932 Maccabiah Games and 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine, she won a combined five gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal in swimming. Biography Swimming career Bienenfeld was Jewish, and competed for the Jewish sports club Hakoah Vienna, which had been founded in 1909 in response to the "Aryan clause" that banned Jews from joining other sports clubs. In 1924, at 15 years of age, Bienenfeld won the annual Austrian five-mile open-water swimming competition ''Quer durch Wien'' (Across Vienna) on the Danube that gathered about 500,000 spectators. In 1925, she was second, after Löwy who swam freestyle. Subsequently, she became a popular swimsuit mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internment Camps In The Isle Of Man
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement rather than confinement ''after'' having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities. The word ''internment'' is also occasionally used to describe a neutral country's practice of detaining belligerent armed forces and equipment on its territory during times of war, under the Hague Convention of 1907. Interned persons may be held in prisons or in facilities known as internment camps (also known as concentration camps). The term ''concentration camp'' originates from the Spanish–Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish forces detained Cuban civilians in camps in order to more easily combat guerrilla forces. Over the following dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In World War II
Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable, although the particular roles varied from country to country. Millions of women of various ages were injured or died as a result of the war. World patterns Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The Soviet Union, for example, integrated women directly into their army units. The United States, by comparison, elected not to use women in combat because public opinion would not tolerate it. Instead, like in other nations, approximately 350,000 women served as uniformed auxiliaries in non-combat roles in the U.S. armed forces. These roles included: administration, nurses, truck drivers, mechanics, electricians, and auxiliary pilots. Women also took part outsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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