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931: Let Down Too Many Times
Ruth Barnett MBE
My mother appeared out of nowhere. Which was how I experienced it: the grown-ups made arrangements & then I was told...
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941: Sharing The Sandwiches
Henry Wuga MBE
Ingrid & I got married on December 26 1944. In the middle of the war. We were in love & there was nothing to wait for. We were 20...
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948: Not Remembering My Emotions
Hella Pick CBE
I can still see myself arriving at Liverpool Street Station. But I can’t remember much about the journey. Just a blank. It’s shocking...
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967: Fitting In
Hella Pick CBE
The other pupils must have known I was a refugee. I became a Girl Guide & we were performing something & I was an African chief...
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969: No One In My Situation
Lia Lesser
In 1939, my father married again in Prague. His wife was called Ola & she was a seamstress. When she came out of Auschwitz she got in touch...
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976: Coming To England Alone Aged 5
Hannah Wurzburger
It's a bottomless pit. So absolutely appalling. Children are so vulnerable. Especially when they're separated from their family...
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977: The Cruel Guardian
Maria Ault
My first guardians were fine. But when we were evacuated we stayed with a very, very, very, very bad person who used to hit us...
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979: Sitting Through That
Bronia Snow
My parents always discussed everything. But not a word was spoken about my going to England. So I found myself one fine day...
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982: Not Dwelling On Things
Gerta Regensburger
I have no feelings & not many memories. I’m not a very retrospective person. It always amazes me that so many people remember...
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994: Grass Snakes At The Beacon
Lilly Lampert
All I know: I wanted to come to England to be with my sister Gertie. I didn't know I wasn't going to see my parents again...
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998: Red Oaks Boarding School
Ruth Jackson
I was led upstairs to an empty dormitory & told that the very end bed was mine & I should have a bath & come down to tea. I felt miserable...
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