Barbed-wire Barricades & Miss Becker

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Against the background of controls and restrictions imposed on Germans and Italians living in the United Kingdom at the start of World War 2 four Anglo-German siblings are taken from their home in London and interned: the girl Ruby Becker is sent to the Isle of Man via Holloway Prison and her three brothers to a variety of hastily erected and severely overcrowded poorly run camps and then onto the ill-fated SS Arandora Star. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Whilst Ruby's internment is restrictive it is nowhere near as horrific squalid and dangerous as that endured by her brothers; yet she knows that it is she who deserves to be severely punished not them.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>So why is she being treated so comparatively leniently? Why hasn't she been tried sentenced and possibly executed.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>She will have to wait years for the answer.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Barbed-wire Barricades and Miss Becker is based on a true story and explores the injustice of blanket wartime internment as well the appalling conditions that many innocent people had to endure. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>It is also a story about love sacrifice and incompetence.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Above all it is a story about survival.</span></p>