Internment camp descendants visit Island

Trip commemorates 80th anniversary of freeing all prisoners

Dozens of descendants of German and Austrian refugees of Jewish descent have visited the Island to see where their relatives were interned during World War Two.

The trip commemorated the 80th anniversary of the freeing of all those who had been imprisoned.

A blue plaque was unveiled at the Sea Terminal by Chief Minister Alfred Cannan and an oak tree planted in Hutchinson Square in Douglas - the site of one of the camps.

It was co-organised by the Association of Jewish Refugees and the group Insiders/Outsiders whose founding director is art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen.

She says it's an important period in British history which needs to be explained properly: