Family History: Using Prisoner of War Records

'Family History: Using Prisoner of War Records'

Explore how to use Prisoners of War records from the Second World War held by The National Archives in your family history research.

Discover all you need to get started researching ancestors who were taken as Prisoners of War during the Second World War. This film introduces you to Prisoners of War from across different theatres of war and some of the key records held by The National Archives.

Update: since this film was made, the record series CO1070 has been indexed and can now be searched on our catalogue, Discovery. This was made possible by the amazing work of our volunteer cataloguing team.

00:00 - Introduction
2:27 - British, Commonwealth and Allied POWs
11:16 - German and Italian POWs
13:02 - Further sources

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