Ferlov Mancoba
Audio file 151-1
[likely preceding tape: 150-2] Wonga wants to speak of racial segregation in the internment camps but Ernest is confused about his line of questioning [mentions Stephen Lawrence]
Wonga asks about two Jewish prisoners who were Ernest's friends in camp, Jean Weinfeld and Milosz [no further identification], but Ernest is not forthcoming in answering
Wonga asks if Ernest had non-Black and non-Jewish friends in the camp, and Ernest recalls Thomas, the English lawyer [no further identification] that it was through his advice that Ernest applied for British citizenship, that he was also a member of the camp's debating society
Ernest recalls that he successfully obtained a British passport instead of a South African one, but was denied its renewal, that Sonia, on the other hand, would be allowed to renew
Ernest's nationalities are also discussed in audio file 73-2
Wonga brings up Milosz who, being Egyptian, was initially considered British, but when the war broke out in Africa [mentions Romel], the Germans treated him as a Jew and sleighted him to be transferred to Royallieu-Compiègne; that knowing his possible fate, he gifted his clothing to Ernest; but at Compiègne he asked for them back via Sonja; after the war, Milosz recounted to Ernest and Sonja that it helped him escape from the camp
Wonga speaks of the revisionists who deny the holocaust [mentions Jean-Marie Le Pen]
Facts
PDFAbout the recordings: Ernest Mancoba's son, Marc also known as Wonga, recorded interviews with his father. The interviews seemed to serve different purposes and are not in chronological order.
ca.1990-2002 (151-1)
Bishop Smythe
La Grande Caserne St. Denis (Seine)
Stephen Lawrence
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp
Jean Weinfeld