Sentences with phrase «camp as prisoners of war»

In 1917, he and his wife were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was asked to lead a service for his fellow prisoners in Flossenburg concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War As he finished two men flung open the door and told prisoner Bonhoeffer to take his things and come with them.

(As the extermination and cremation area, Camp III was under heavy guard and cut off from the rest of the camp; its inhabitants could not take part in the well - known prisoner revolt of October 1943, when about 300 inmates managed to escape — most were later caught and did not survive the war.)

Based on his best - selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War war at a Japanese labour camp during World War War II.

Director Jonathan Teplitzky (Getting» Square), writer Frank Cottrell Boyce (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) and producer turned co-scribe Andy Patterson (Burning Man) adapt Eric Lomax's autobiography of the same name into a consideration of closure and catharsis, as focused on the juxtaposition of the young Lomax's (Jeremy Irvine, Great Expectations) experiences in a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp, working on the Thai - Burma Railway in cruel conditions, and the elder Lomax's (Colin Firth, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) troubles when attempting to cope, particularly on the occasion of his marriage to the sympathetic Patti (Nicole Kidman, Stoker) decades later.

Stalag 17 (1953): William Holden's cynical turn as a suspected Nazi spy earned him an Oscar in this Billy Wilder gem set inside a World War II prisoner of war caWar II prisoner of war cawar camp.

Based on a true story, The Railway Man stars Colin Firth as Eric Lomax, a British WWII veteran and a survivor of the horrifying conditions and treatment he experienced at a Japanese Prisoner of War camp.

For a time, during the second world war, the Gili islands were used by Japanese forces as a look out post and also a prisoner of war camp.

Trained in medicine, he served as a doctor in North Africa during World War Two, but was taken prisoner in 1943 and interned in a prisoner - of - war camp in Hereford, Texas, where he first began to paiWar Two, but was taken prisoner in 1943 and interned in a prisoner - of - war camp in Hereford, Texas, where he first began to paiwar camp in Hereford, Texas, where he first began to paint.