The Jewish prisoners were beaten and starved. Some were chained in their cells; at least one inmate was shot by a guard on a seeming whim. It was the early 1940s and the Holocaust was raging across Europe. Anti-Semitic soldiers who’d fought with Hitler ran brutal concentration camps where violence was common – but these were not the famous concentration camps of Germany and Poland. Many Jewish prisoners – as well as other non-Jewish victims – were held in camps across Scotland, run by Polish prisoners who were given autonomy to run these brutal prisons however they wanted. Between 1940 and 1946, untold numbers of prisoners – many of them Jews – were held in a network of secretive wartime concentration camps across Scotland. Their stories of these Holocaust victims have seldom been told. Read More
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