Captured is a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North that explores the life of prisoners of war during World War II. Here we present a selection of those on display.
This is a photograph taken covertly at Stalag VIIA at Moosburg, Germany, in October 1943, showing British prisoners of war brewing tea.
German prisoners of war working in the vegetable garden at Glen Mill prisoner of war camp, Oldham, Christmas Eve, 1940.
The interior of a prisoner of war hut at Tamuang camp on the Thailand-Burma Railway.
The cast of a theatre production at Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf, Germany.
The prisoners� courtyard at Colditz. The courtyard was not much bigger than a tennis court, and the high buildings surrounding it meant that even on sunny days it was always dark, draughty and cold.
Prisoners tending a garden at Stalag Luft III POW camp. Vegetable seeds were sent by the Red Cross to help supplement the POW diet.
British POWs playing cricket in nets at Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf, Germany. Sports equipment was supplied via the Red Cross.
This photograph demonstrates how currency was hidden inside gramophone records sent by the British War Office in order to help prisoners in their escape attempts.
And here you can see how maps were hidden inside playing cards.
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