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Object description
British Jewish civilian served with Women's Land Army in Grimsby, Oxford and London, 1939-1945
Content description
REEL 1: Aspect of period in Israel, 1937-1939: story of attending three year course at agricultural school in Degania Alef; returned to GB after completing 18 months of course, 1939. Aspects of period with Women's Land Army in Grimsby and Oxford, GB, 1939-1943: entered Midland Agricultural College, Nottingham, on outbreak of war; sent to farm near Grimsby; opinion of farmer and accommodation; problem of non-Kosher food; family background; story of six mile walk to farm and work looking after bullocks; description of accommodation in shepherd's cottage and taking meals with wagoner; cost of board and lodgings; reaction of locals to meeting first Jewish person; working hours; opinion of treatment; recreational activities; number of Jewish girls in Land Army; story of Rabbi in Grimsby arranging accommodation with Jewish family; social life; story of watching troops coming back from Dunkirk, 6/1940; opinion of Churchill; story about friend 's family killed in air raid; visited solicitor's house for baths and meals; story of leaving farm and moving to Headington, Oxford, 1941; opinion of lodgings; description of work delivering milk on horse and cart; activities with Jewish Society in Oxford; description of work for Co-Op on milk lorry; story of home in London being bombed. Aspects of period with Women's Land Army in London, GB, 1943-1945: description of work on milk round for Express Dairy in Hampstead; notable customers including Gen. De Gaulle; reaction to anti-Semitic remarks from customers; community spirit; attitude to Germans; attitude of Jewish community to war and Jewish refugees in London;
REEL 2 Continues; story of inviting refugees into home; closeness of Jewish community; reaction to arrival of Jews from other countries including US; work helping at Jewish Service Club; story about Jewish friend marrying US soldier; reaction to news of Holocaust and liberation of camps; attitude to arrival of Jewish refugees; question of Jews being more affected by war than non-Jews; reaction to formation of state of Israel, 1948 and first Israeli Embassy in London; growth of Zionism after war; question of some Jews being more attracted to communism than Zionism.
