The Most Trusted Man in Camp
In 1943, the Japanese military herded 1,800 civilians into the Weihsien internment camp in occupied China. Crammed behind barbed wire with dwindling rations and rising...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 15.
In 1943, the Japanese military herded 1,800 civilians into the Weihsien internment camp in occupied China. Crammed behind barbed wire with dwindling rations and rising tensions, people showed who they really were. Petty theft crept in. Arguments over living space turned vicious. Trust became the scarcest commodity in camp. Among the prisoners was Eric Liddell, the Scottish Olympic sprinter who had famously refused to run on Sunday in 1924.…
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