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Object description
Ts account (30pp), written in 1990, describing her childhood as a member of a Jewish family in Ealing, West London (1927 - 1939), her evacuation with her school to Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire where she was billeted in the local manor house (September 1939 - September 1940) and her and her twin younger sisters' evacuation under the `Boston Transcript' scheme to the United States (September 1940 - October 1945), with particular reference to their Atlantic crossing on the liner ANTONIA in September 1940, their temporary accommodation in New York and their subsequent life with very prosperous Jewish foster parents in Chicago until her passage home on the AQUITANIA in October 1945 and the twins' temporary return home a year later. The memoir, which contains some interesting details about their home life, education and social activities in the United States and the long-term effects on the three children of their evacuation, is accompanied by three letters from the US Department of Justice, 1942 - 1944, granting Mrs Gaffen (under her maiden name of Woolf) annual extensions of stay in the United States.
Content description
Ts account (30pp), written in 1990, describing her childhood as a member of a Jewish family in Ealing, West London (1927 - 1939), her evacuation with her school to Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire where she was billeted in the local manor house (September 1939 - September 1940) and her and her twin younger sisters' evacuation under the `Boston Transcript' scheme to the United States (September 1940 - October 1945), with particular reference to their Atlantic crossing on the liner ANTONIA in September 1940, their temporary accommodation in New York and their subsequent life with very prosperous Jewish foster parents in Chicago until her passage home on the AQUITANIA in October 1945 and the twins' temporary return home a year later. The memoir, which contains some interesting details about their home life, education and social activities in the United States and the long-term effects on the three children of their evacuation, is accompanied by three letters from the US Department of Justice, 1942 - 1944, granting Mrs Gaffen (under her maiden name of Woolf) annual extensions of stay in the United States.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1990-12