Could artworks still be hidden in Japanese POW camps? (Plus how & why it was hidden).

The act of drawing or painting was often banned in Far East POW camps. Many artistically-inclined prisoners risked severe punishment and even death, to secretly capture their experience on paper, finding all sorts of ingenious ways to keep work hidden. So, how did they manage to keep it a secret? And could there still be artworks, waiting to be discovered? Please subscribe and share this video if you enjoyed it! Special thanks to the following individuals for their contribution to this video: The artists who were featured, and their families, plus those who provided images or footage (see list and links to their publications further down). Meg Parkes & the Captive Memories website, LSTM & the University of Liverpool VG&M. You can buy their books on FEPOW Art here: https://www.captivememories.org.uk/ Stephen Walton, Senior Curator, IWM. RFHG - for details of UK research conferences for family and academic historians: https://fepowhistory.com Dr Jon Cooper & James Tann, University of Glasgow's Centre for Conflict Archaeology https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/war... https://www.adamparkproject.com/ Plan your visit to IWM's Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries: https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/blavatn... Explore and licence the film clips used in this video from IWM Film: https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/co... This video contains footage, images and artworks, courtesy of IWM Collections & Film Archive Capt. A. A. Duncan © Parkes family The Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au/ Dr Jon Cooper & James Tann, University of Glasgow's Centre for Conflict Archaeology Ronald Searle Cultural Estate/Sayle Literary Agency Jack Chalker © Tim Mercer. Buy Jack's book: https://tinyurl.com/mr2hdsat Philip Meninsky © IWM George Stanley Gimson © IWM Francis Kenneth Elwell © IWM James Morris Wellcome Images Leslie Audus © Audus family Ashley George Old , Courtesy of the Bartholomew family Charles Thrale NARA / Public Domain Fred Stallard courtesy of the Stallard family Stanley Warren Images courtesy of Jerome Lim - https://tinyurl.com/4aprf8dj Painting by unknown POW, discovered at Kwai Noi camp, courtesy of Colin Walker - http://scoutguidehistoricalsociety.co... Moheen Reeyad / Public domain Ben Rufus Green Wikipedia Commons U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Please note - this video contains artworks and/or footage from the DoD. The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. Follow IWM on social media: Twitter:   / i_w_m   Instagram:   / imperialwarmuseums   Facebook:   / iwm.london