Re: British internment during the World Wars
Dave Lichtenstein
Thanks Tony - I belong to so many e-mail based groups that my
e-mail inbox tends to get clogged up. If there is further information then
what I briefly have in the one lette, I would be happy to join. The late
Stefanie Zweig obviously had information (may be personal memories) of her
father being interned at a camp in Kabete (near Nairobi) in Kenya. With
best wishes Dave
From: tony and toba hausner [mailto:tthausner@...] Sent: Monday, 30 December 2019 8:31 AM To: main@...; Dave Lichtenstein Subject: Re: [JewishGen.org] British internment during the World Wars Dave
Thanks for your email. Our group started
out focused on the Isle of Man. In the process, folks who's family members were
interred on other camps in Great Britain, in Canada and Australia have joined us
and been part of the discussion. You are the first person to mention
internment in Kenya, so I don't know if anyone is knowledgeable about Kenya's
internment camps. Since it was part of the British Commonwealth at one
time, you are welcome to join if you like. Please let me know.
Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD 20901
301--587-6943 (primary email address: thausner@...) On Sunday, December 29, 2019, 04:23:07 PM EST, Dave Lichtenstein
<lichtend@...> wrote:
Hello Tony - your subject heading is very broad ie British
internment. What was then classified as British covered vast swathes of
the globe. Yet when I read the details all you seem to mention is a single
island off the British Isles viz the Isle of Man. What I would like to
know is whether the group that you have set up and more importantly the research
covers other areas of then British territory. The reason I ask is that my
father having escaped Nazi Germany and one of their internment camps Buchenwald
was subsequently interned in Kenya, where he ended up, after War broke
out. In one of his letters to my mother who was visiting Israel that time
with her own mother in the fifties, my father mentioned meeting a German inmate
with whom he was interned at the Naivasha Camp. (My mother kept my
father's letters sent to her in Israel. Other than my father's brief
mention about the internment I have no other details. I was wondering
therefore such information on Kenya internment camps following the outbreak of
WWII exist. Dave Lichtenstein Sydney, Australia
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