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His Majesty's Loyal Internee: Fred Uhlman in Captivity by Anna Müller-Härlin, Julia Winckler and Charmian Brinson (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVallentine Mitchell Publishers
ISBN-100853039208
ISBN-139780853039204
eBay Product ID (ePID)70450217
Product Key Features
Number of Pages166 Pages
Publication NameHis Majesty's Loyal Internee: Fred Uhlman in Captivity
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
SubjectCultural Heritage, Military / World War II, Diaries & Journals, Military / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Jewish
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, History
AuthorAnna Müller-Härlin, Julia Winckler, Charmian Brinson
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.4 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2009-284717
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal940.53174279092
SynopsisIn 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 refuges from Stuttgart, was one of these. Uhlman was a lawyer and an artist, and is probably best known today for his novella Reunion. Cut off from his wife, who was about to give birth to their first child, Uhlman found internment a harrowing yet also a highly memorable experience which he attempted to capture both in word and image. This volume contains Uhlman's previously unpublished internment diary in its original 1940 version as well as a later reworked version in which he looks back at the same experience, though from the perspective of 1979. It also contains corespondence to and from the internment camp between Uhlman and his wife Diana, and between Uhlman and his disapproving aristocratic father-in-law. Lord Croft. These written testimonles are complemented by some of the stark and haunting drawings that Uhlman completed while interned. Chapters on Uhlman's biography and on his artistic and his literary output set his writings and drawings with in the wilder context of his life and work. In addition, a chapter on life in Hutchinson Camp, described by one former Innate as 'a camp full of once and future Very Important persons', sets out to recreate something of the extraordinary artistic and intellectual life so vigorously pursued there by the internees., 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.
LC Classification NumberD805.G7
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