Photocopy of ts account (11pp written in 1989) describing her arrest in France, where she was living as a British citizen, in December 1940, transportation to, and internment at Besancon and, principally, Vittel, describing conditions and fellow internees, but paying special attention to the influx of Jews carrying counterfeit South American passports, their treatment, her attempts (through the Resistance) to persuade the British and Swiss authorities to arrange their rescue, international apathy towards them and the disinterest shown by fellow internees, their deportation, occasional cases of their rescue, their ultimate fate, and her repatriation via Lisbon (July - August 1944); also: photocopies of ts lists of those interned at Vittel, Saint Denis and Giromagny, and of Jews held in Vittel; photocopy of her ts letter and ms list of Jews in camp (April 1944, 1p) smuggled out of camp to (Sir) John Balfour of the Foreign Office, pleading for international protection for the Jews; 8 pencil, chalk and water colour illustrations of scenes from the Besancon and Vittel camps made by Joan Phillips while in the camps, a card showing one of the Vittel buildings and a photo of a commemorative plaque there in 1989; together with copies of documents pertaining to the award to Mrs Skipwith of the title 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Yad Vashem in 1998 (21pp, ts), which include the recollections of fellow internee Madeleine White.
