Recalling life in a Japanese POW camp

Just over 2,000 Allied prisoners were sent to Mukden and its satellite camps, and about 1600 were freed. The deaths were a result of maltreatment by guards, inadequate medical treatment, and executions.

An unknown number of Chinese civilians were also killed for trying to help the prisoners.

To mark this, Chinese authorities have constructed a museum on the site of the camp, once known as Mukden Camp but now known as Shenyang.

Some of the buildings have been preserved, along with artefacts, photographs, diaries and memories recorded by prisoners. Former inmates have visited it, and there is also a plaque detailing the friendship between the Chinese civilians who tried to help, and the prisoners.

The Liverpool exhibition, known as the "Forgotten Camp" exhibition, started on Nov 7 and lasts for a week.

The exhibition is aimed at commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII and is part of the China-UK Year of Cultural Exchange.