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Baroness opens internment exhibition

Peer visits place of parents' exile

The story of 3000 women held in an Isle of Man internment camp during World War 2, is told in a new exhibition which opens today.

Friend or Foe completes the story of Rushen Camp 'W' between 1941 and the end of the war in Europe in 1945.

It's been staged by Rushen Heritage Trust, which last year charted the arrival of around 3000 mainly German women to the Island.

The latest exhibition runs until 24 August and is open daily at St Catherine's Church in Port Erin. Admission is free.

It has been sponsored by the Isle of Man Arts Council and Culture Vannin.

Labour peer Baroness Ruth Henig - whose mother was interned and whose sister was born in the camp - performed the official opening last night.

Professor Hugh Davidson from the trust says Baroness Henig's family has a unique place in the Island's internment story:

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