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Object description
Photocopy of a memoir (22pp ts), apparently `ghosted' by an English acquaintance and written up around 1944 - 1945, describing her arrival in England as a German refugee in August 1939, joining her husband and son who had come to England earlier, her search for employment in London and the difficulties of adapting to her new circumstances, making a living first as a charwoman and then working in a factory making military uniforms, having to cope with the evacuation of her son at the start of the London `Blitz' and his return following problems with his host family, their move to Devon to be nearer her husband who was serving in the army, having to adapt once again from city to rural life, concluding with her settling in to village life, having to take leave of her husband again as the BLA crosses to Normandy, and her hopes for a speedy return to normal family life.
Content description
Photocopy of a memoir (22pp ts), apparently `ghosted' by an English acquaintance and written up around 1944 - 1945, describing her arrival in England as a German refugee in August 1939, joining her husband and son who had come to England earlier, her search for employment in London and the difficulties of adapting to her new circumstances, making a living first as a charwoman and then working in a factory making military uniforms, having to cope with the evacuation of her son at the start of the London `Blitz' and his return following problems with his host family, their move to Devon to be nearer her husband who was serving in the army, having to adapt once again from city to rural life, concluding with her settling in to village life, having to take leave of her husband again as the BLA crosses to Normandy, and her hopes for a speedy return to normal family life.
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