Maria Ring and her sister Vilma Howe spent years inside a Prisoner of War Camp in the Far East. Vilma was interned with her mother and brother in 1941. Maria was born in the camp. A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North looks back at the experiences of all POW鈥檚 in all conflicts, including the eighty thousand women and children held by the Japanese.
Jenni听speakis to Vilma and Maria, alongside听Dr Bernice Archer; Author of "The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-45 - A Patchwork of Internment."
Captured:听The Extraordinary Lives of Prisoners of War, is at the听Imperial War Museum North, until 3rd听January 2010. Free Entry.
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