Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Douglas
Town
Douglas
County
Isle of Man
Country
Isle of Man
Commemoration
Second World War - civilians
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
79631

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Current location

Hutchinson Square Gardens
Hutchinson Square
Douglas
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM2 4HP
Isle of Man

OS Grid Ref: SC 38126 76722
Denomination: Undefined

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Description
Stainless Steel plaque, and explanatory metal notice board
Inscription
Stainless steel plaque-Hutchinson Square-Internment Camp/The 1st year students of the Isle of Man College National Diploma in Art/and Design, have undertaken a project to commemorate the artists who/were interred on the Island in 1940, as part of 'Douglas in Bloom'./During the Second World War there were ten civilian internnment camps/on the Island which housed many aliens, who had been arrested/throughout Britain when Churchill ordered the police to "collar the lot!"./Hutchinson camp, which compromised of the square and the adjoining/terrace on Broadway was remarkable in that it held a high proportion of/artists, intellectuals and musicians and many lectures took place in the/summer sunshine on the lawns./Famous visual artists such as the collagist, Kurt Schwitters were/interned here along with expressionist Ersch Kahn. The members of/the world famous Amadeus String Quartet first met each other there,/Rawice and Landauer, the popular piano duo were reunited after the/camp commander Captain Daniel succeeded in pulling strings./Once again, Captain Daniel made every effort to supply artist materials/as could be scraped together. Artists like Fred Ulman, Ludwig Meifner,/Ernst Blendorf, Helmuth Weisenborn, Fritz Solomonski, Arthur/Segal, Henry de Boys Roessingh, Peter Fleischmann (Midgeley), Paul/Helmann, Hermann Fechenbach and others unnamed benefited from his/good will towards those people who had fled oppression in their own/countries./A series of ornamental tiles, all designed and made by Isle/of Man College Manx art students, are positioned in Hutchinson/Square gardens in memory of these people and the dark times that/they lived through
Inscription legible?
yes
Commemorations
  • Second World War - civilians
    Total names on memorial: 0
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 0
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Undefined
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Plaque
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Stainless Steel
  • Board
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Metal
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference

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