Jews attempted mass escapes and uprisings in many dozens of ghettos and camps during the Holocaust. This chapter discusses armed resistance in ghettos and camps, looking both at the better-known instances such as the Warsaw ghetto uprising or the Sonderkommando revolt at Auschwitz–Birkenau and also at other cases of armed resistance in ghettos such as Białystok, as well as Sobibór and Treblinka death camps, seeking to identify patterns and connections between these instances.

Chapter 6 explores the simultaneous and contradictory projects of protection, detention, reform, and rehabilitation at a state-run shelter in Mumbai. It discusses the challenges of doing research in a carceral institution, explaining, in particular, the use of film screenings as a research method. The chapter describes how women placed in shelter detention experience profound uncertainty about their release, an indefinite curtailment of their mobility, interaction with kin and partners, and ability to earn a living. It examines how NGOs participate in shelter detention through programs providing livelihood skills training that appeal to foreign donors and the Indian state because of their neoliberal objective of facilitating women’s exit from both prostitution and state custody. It demonstrates how, from the perspective of detained women, however, these rehabilitation programs are questionably useful and rarely sustainable or lucrative. The chapter also highlights how Bangladeshi women are targeted by an immigration control agenda that joins the existing forms of governance shaping shelter detention. The chapter ends by tracking tabloid reports of an incident of escape from the shelter and the Bombay High Court’s subsequent intervention. The author argues that these responses by the media and judiciary ultimately extend and intensify, rather than question, shelter detention.

This chapter takes the particular example of feigning to explore claims of experience and expertise among prison medical officers. The feigning of insanity in prisons was believed to be prevalent and the sorting of prisoners between ‘genuine’ cases of insanity and those feigning or shamming insanity a key duty of prison medical officers. Particular concern was expressed about malingers’ ambitions to be removed to the better conditions offered by asylums, which then also presented opportunities for escape. The prison has been neglected in the broader historiography of feigning or malingering, yet has much to tell historians about the way it was seen as a particular problem among criminals; its detection, in the view of prison medical officers, both labour- and skill-intensive. Highlighting exchanges of medical expertise and knowledge among English and Irish alienists and prison medical officers, the chapter describes the often drawn-out processes of assessing whether a prisoner was feigning mental illness or was a genuine case of insanity, and reveals the tension between prison psychiatry and forensic experts and asylum doctors in claiming special knowledge in uncovering deception.

Demonstrates that music was a vital part of the daily routines of those interned in prisoner of war camps. The forming of orchestras and theatrical revues were a popular way of passing the time and maintaining morale, but in many cases musical activities were used by prisoners of war to conceal attempts to escape. This chapter will give examples of how prisoners of war used music as a means of keeping up their morale to stave off feelings of ‘mouldiness,’ later identified as barbed wire disease.