We Built Up Our Lives: Education and Community Among Jewish Refugees Interned by Britain in World War II

by Maxine Schwartz Seller

Fearing an imminent Nazi invasion, the British government interned 28,000 men and women of enemy nationality living in Britain in the spring of 1940. Most were Jewish refugees who, having fled Nazi persecution, were appalled to find themselves imprisoned as potential Nazi spies. Using oral histories, unpublished letters and memoirs, artifacts and newspapers from the camps, and government documents, We Built Up Our Lives tells the compelling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313318158
• ISBN13: 9780313318153
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"