internment

Why did Britain lock up so many innocent refugees in 1940?

12 February 2022 9:00 am

Despite prostrate Germany’s need for the return of its men, in Britain we didn’t release our prisoners of war until…

Némirovsky's love letter to the France that spurned her and killed her

15 November 2014 9:00 am

By 1940 Irène Némirovsky, who had arrived in France at the age of 16 as a refugee from Kiev, had…

How Denmark’s Jews escaped the Nazis

8 March 2014 9:00 am

Of all the statistics generated by the Holocaust, perhaps some of the most disturbing in the questions they give rise…