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- Notes:
- British internees could learn about news and sales at the bill-posting station in the prison camp at Ruhleben. A group of internees peruse recently released notices on the wall.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British internees pose next to the theatrical promotion for "The Hairdresser," which is being held over for additional engagements in July 1915. This play was performed in the Ruhleben Empire, the camp's theater.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- While self-government was the foundation of life and camp discipline at the prison camp at Ruhleben, the Germans still spied on the internees to find out what they were doing. In this drawing, a German guard peers through the keyhole to watch men play cards by candlelight.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Members of the Ruhleben Horticultural Society took their competition seriously in March 1918. The table in an exhibition hall in Ruhleben displays a wide range of fauna grown in the camp and presented to the camp population at Easter.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A thriving commercial district emerged on the infield of the race track at Ruhleben. This drawing shows Bond Street, which featured Ye Olde Pond Shops--the canteen, outfitters, and the police station.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Winter in the prison camp at Ruhleben could be dreary. This is a drawing of the ithe facility on a rainy day. It was drawn by John Wiggin, a repatriated civilian internee.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- An artist in the prison camp at Ruhleben drew a variety of portraits of the different types of men incarcerated in the facility. These drawings represented men from all corners of the British Empire.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British internees revolted against German authority and practiced democratic self-government inside the prison camp at Ruhleben, which included the election of camp officers and administrators. Israel Cohen was one of the candidates and headed the "Men's Candidate" party.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Drawing of the interior of an internees' room at the Ruhleben prison camp. Three internees lived in a horse box inside of the stables of the race track. Internees were free to acquire property to improve their standard of living. British civilians made the best with the existing horse stables where they were assigned for living quarters.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British internees had the opportunity to perform experiments in the physical laboratory in the Ruhleben prison camp. They could perform experiments for class, conduct medical tests, or undertake their own scientific research in this lab.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
