Hutchinson Internment Camp exhibition November 1940

In November 1940 Captain Hubert Daniel who was the Commander in charge of the Hutchinson Internment Camp in Douglas, Isle of Man, opened an exhibition of work by the artists interned there. Artists included Paul Hamann, Kurt Schwitters, Fritz Kraemer, Georg Ehrlich, Siegfried Charoux, Fritz Solomonski, Fred Uhlman, Carlo Pietzner, Erich Kahn, Ernst M. Blcnsdorf, Hellmuth Weissenborn and Hugo 'Puck' Dachinger (the inventor of patented adhesive lettering system “Letraset”).

 

Captain Hubert Daniel contributed to the tangible heritage of the Hutchinson Camp as he kept a photographic record of the artists work, one of which is ‘Interned’ a linocut by Hermann Fechenbach.

 

The image 'Interned' is mistakenly seen as the Isle of Man, while it was cut there in 1940 it is not of the Isle of Man, but of a disused factory that was converted into a prison in Bury. This was before Hermann was sent on to Liverpool prison and finally on to the Hutchinson Camp.

 

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Synagogue at Bad Mergentheim & Dr. Moses Kahn

During the events of November 9th and 10th, 1938 called the “Kristallnacht” or “Night of Broken Glass” the Nazis destroyed almost all Jewish synagogues in Germany. The only synagogue believed to have escaped the destroying rage of the Nazis is at Bad Mergentheim, in southern Germany, Hermann Fechenbach’s family home town. The Bad Mergentheim synagogue was shut down on the 9th of November, 1939, it was not burned down for fear that the fire would destroy the other building attached to it. Also on that night the very respected rabbi Dr. Moses Kahn, then 67 years old, was almost beaten to death by the Nazi SA at his home.