THE horrors that awaited Allied prisoners-of-war in the Far East are being highlighted in a former British prisoner-of-war camp.
Eden Camp, at Old Malton, North Yorkshire, held German and Italian prisoners during the Second World War and its huts now house a wartime theme museum.
Part of one of those huts has been transformed to show the conditions in which Allied prisoners were kept by the Japanese.
It features a specially-commissioned figure of a PoW, complete with sores, against a bamboo background. Around his waist is a loincloth, brought back to this country from the Far East by a prisoner and donated to the museum.
Archivist Peter Cornick said: "Allied prisoners were treated very harshly by their Japanese captors and that is what we are trying to show.
"In contrast, the other half of the hut shows how prisoners were kept here at Eden Camp during the war years."
Published: 26/02/2005
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