The prisoners’ gardens at the back of Alexandra Palace. Photo: © The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain.
Enemy aliens
Jill Allum brings a little known story to light
by Jill Allum
9th December 2016
How often do you have the chance of ridding someone you know of a demon that has bound her family for 100 years? My Friday Meeting friend, sometime in 2015, began telling me of her German grandfather, Rudolf, who had been interned as an enemy alien in Alexandra Palace, alongside 3,000 others, from 1914 to 1919.
