Object details

Category
Sound
Related period
1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content)
Creator
BBC (Production company)
Purslow, Louise (recorder)
Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita (interviewee/speaker)
Production date
1993
Dimensions

whole: Number Of Items 1, 20

Catalogue number
13491

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