Description
Object description
Microfilm copy of a ts diary (155pp) written as a WVS worker in London, August 1939 - May 1941, during which period she was primarily concerned with assisting in the evacuation of pregnant women and schoolchildren, distributing gas masks, outfitting a volunteer military group for Finland and helping Belgian and Dutch refugees, while describing isolated incidents, fleeting encounters and stories of servicemen including those evacuated from Dunkirk as well as her own thoughts on the war and its effects on London and Londoners, including a description of emotional farewells at Kings Cross as young children were evacuated (2 September 1939), her contact with a German woman whose husband was Jewish (November 1939) and a French woman who still had relatives in Paris which had just fallen to the Germans (14 June 1940), a woman whose son and daughter-in-law had been buried under rubble (29 June 1940), devastation in Oxford Street (28 September 1940), and personal tragedies including the death of members of her own family in the Blitz (13 May 1941).
Content description
Microfilm copy of a ts diary (155pp) written as a WVS worker in London, August 1939 - May 1941, during which period she was primarily concerned with assisting in the evacuation of pregnant women and schoolchildren, distributing gas masks, outfitting a volunteer military group for Finland and helping Belgian and Dutch refugees, while describing isolated incidents, fleeting encounters and stories of servicemen including those evacuated from Dunkirk as well as her own thoughts on the war and its effects on London and Londoners, including a description of emotional farewells at Kings Cross as young children were evacuated (2 September 1939), her contact with a German woman whose husband was Jewish (November 1939) and a French woman who still had relatives in Paris which had just fallen to the Germans (14 June 1940), a woman whose son and daughter-in-law had been buried under rubble (29 June 1940), devastation in Oxford Street (28 September 1940), and personal tragedies including the death of members of her own family in the Blitz (13 May 1941).
History note
Cataloguer JSK
History note
Catalogue date 2002-04-23