From Internee to Art Collector: Tribute to Ruth Borchard
Virtual Event
Screening of film about former refugee/internee Ruth Borchard and her magnificent collection of self-portraits by British-based artists.
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Tales of Internment – Sonia Lambert
Virtual Event
Sonia will discuss the influence on her own writing of some of the accounts written by Jewish refugees interned by the British in 1940
Insiders/Outsiders: Antipodean Connections: Day One
Virtual Event
An online conference focussing on the experiences of the refugees from Nazism deported to Australia as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British in 1940
Insiders/Outsiders: Antipodean Connections: Day Two
Virtual Event
An online conference focussing on the experiences of the refugees from Nazism deported to Australia as ‘enemy aliens’ by the British in 1940
Jack Bilbo – Artist and Cultural Impresario
Virtual Event
This talk and discussion will focus on Bilbo as an émigré artist and on some of the many facets of his extraordinary life and career.
Tribute to Klaus Hinrichsen
Virtual Event
Jacquie Richardson will then be in conversation Simon Parkin, about the key role Hinrichsen played in the rich intellectual and artistic life of Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man
Life and Art Behind The Wire: Wilhelm Hollitscher and Hugo Dachinger
Virtual Event
Ines Newman and Rachel Dickson will discuss the friendship formed in Huyton Camp, near Liverpool, between Ines’ grandfather, engineer Wilhelm Hollitscher and artist Hugo Dachinger
Music behind Barbed Wire
Virtual Event
Norbert Meyn and Michael Holden introduce the remarkably rich musical life of the British internment camps, and perform some of the works created there. Joined by Eva Fox-Gál, daughter of composer Hans Gál, whose internment diary was published under the title Music behind Barbed Wire.