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- Notes:
- This map shows the infamous "death march" of British and Indian prisoners from Kut-al-Amara to Turkish prison camps in Anatolia. Starved, sick, and wounded POW's went up the Tigris River and to cross the Syrian Desert on foot before they reached the rail line at Ras-el-Ain. Thousands of Anglo-Indian prisoners died during the forced march and the cruel treatment by the Turks became a major political issue in Britain.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photograph shows a general view of the city of Afion Karahissar where the Turks maintained two prison camps for Allied POW's. The lower camp was located in houses within the city while the upper camp was located near the foot of the mountain. Allied officers lived in both camps.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This map of the prison facilities at Kastamuni shows where the Turks incarcerated British prisoners in the Lower House camp. The prisoners had access to a chapel, library, restaurant, badminton court, and soccer field, in addition ot the quarters and messes where they lived and ate. After an escape, the Turks severely limited the prisoners' freedom and privileges in the town.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a portrait of a Tartar soldier from the steppes in Russian service incarcerated at Hammerstein. The Russians mobilized troops from the breadth of the tsarist empire to fight the Central Powers.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A British prisoner of war painted this view of the citadel, which sat on a hill overlooking the town of Kastamuni where the Turks incarcerated British POW's captured at Kut-al-Amara. POW's enjoyed painting as a means to pass time in Turkish prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British POW's secretly photographed the street outside of their quarters in Yozgad by constructing their own camera. If discovered, the Turks would have confiscated the camera immediately.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A British prisoner of war made this cello during his incarceration in a Turkish prison camp. Through the prisoners' ingenuity and skill, craftsmen in the camps could make musical instruments for bands and orchestras and musicians could then offer the POW's entertainment.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- An idealized drawing of a joint German-Turkish-Bulgarian attack on a Romanian village in Dobrudja, an offensive which put Romanian and Russian troops to flight.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bones of Armenians massacred by the Turks are unearthed at Erzingan. These "relics" could be found all over Turkish Armenia as the result of the Ottoman government's policy of genocide.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This drawing shows the set and two actors performing in the theatrical "Theodore and Company" at the prison camp in Kedos, probably in 1918.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries