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In May and June 1940, when the war seemed to be going badly for Britain, thousands of German and Austrian refugees from Nazi oppression were rounded up and put into internment camps on the Isle of Man and elsewhere. Fred Uhlman, a Jewish refugee from Stuttgart, a lawyer and an artist, was one of them. Uhlman, who was deeply affected by the experience, set out to record it in word and image. This volume reproduces his original internment diary from 1940 alongside another version of the same text from 1979, compiled retrospectively. These texts are complemented by sixteen haunting drawings and linocuts that Uhlman produced during internment.The volume also contains the letters, highly moving personal documents, exchanged to and from the internment camp between Uhlman and his wife Diana; correspondence between Uhlman and his disapproving aristocratic father-in-law Lord Croft; and documents from the daily life of Hutchinson Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man, where Uhlman was held for seven months. Chapters on Uhlman's biography and on his artistic and literary output set his writings and drawings within the wider context of his life and work.In addition, a chapter outlining the internment crisis of 1940 also sets out to recreate the extraordinary cultural and intellectual life that the internees managed to make for themselves in Hutchinson Camp, in particular the activities of the sizeable group of artists, such as Kurt Schwitters, who happened to find themselves there.

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Charmian Brinson is Professor of German at Imperial College London and a founder member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies. She has published extensively on German-speaking exile in Britain, including on life in the alien internment camps during the Second World War.Anna Muller-Harlin is an Art Historian who did her PhD on Fred Uhlman at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She has worked for the Kicken Berlin gallery and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. She has published widely on the arts in exile in Great Britain.Julia Winckler is an artist and a senior lecturer in photography at the University of Brighton. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, bringing together elements from various spheres of interest, including anthropology and art. She has published on emigre artists and has lectured widely on the transmission of memories through art.

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