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Book Talk: British POWs and the Holocaust
British POWs were held all over Germany and the occupied lands, spending their war in and around towns and villages with names now long forgotten except in local lore. But in many of these out-of-the-way places, another event was playing itself out. Supposedly shrouded in secrecy, the Jews of Europe were being stigmatised, marginalised, starved, worked to death, shot or eventually gassed. It is widely assumed that British POWs saw little of this, with only a handful witnessing anything at all. I
6:30pm - 8pm, free admission but prior registration via The Wiener Library website essential.
The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
Mon 2 Oct 2017
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