Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ549858
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1996
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Filling the Space: Education, Community, and Identity in British Internment Camps during World War II.
Seller, Maxine Schwartz
Paedagogica Historica, v32 n3 p685-707 1996
Recounts a little known episode of World War II: the imprisonment of 28,000 anti-Nazi Jewish refugees in Great Britain. Explores how the refugees created a rich cultural and educational life out of these circumstances. They ran internment camp education programs, put on theatrical shows, and published a camp newspaper. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Civil Liberties, Community Development, Community Role, Community Support, Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Foreign Nationals, Freedom, Higher Education, Jews, Oral History, Quality of Life, Refugees, Relocation, Social Life, Social Support Groups, World War II
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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