About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges faced by prisoners in a WWII camp, including health care issues and food shortages, while they await Red Cross supplies.

The Camp hospital runs out of beds for dysentery patients. Bedie is discharged too early from the hospital causing Natalie and Jerry to question his health care. Food shortages reduce good pickings from the garbage as prisoners pray that the Red Cross Christmas kits will arrive from Manila. Nida’s world is turned upside down, and Camp Holmes gets a new commandant. You can view artifacts as well as paintings and sketches drawn by people who were interned with Natalie by clicking See Pictures ...

Topics covered

• World War II
• prison survival
• health care
• food shortages
• Red Cross
• internment camps

Keywords

• dysentery
• hospital
• food shortages
• Red Cross Christmas kits
• Camp Holmes
• internment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Red Cross

Places: Camp Holmes

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