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A Sailor's return

Before the war my father served in the Merchant Navy but in 1939 when war broke out he was called up to...

From Tannankov to the Tyrol - A Homesick Teenager's Story

The Germans took me to a transit camp in Krakow, Poland where I stayed for about a week....

A Spell of Captivity

As a 19 year old music student in Poland in 1939,my father was waiting to go to the Conservatory of Music...

My Mum was a POW

My mumwas born in Gernsey her father HENRY was from mainland Britain her mother DORIS was an...

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A Christian Family Saved Twice by a Jew

When Jewish Mr Loewy came from Schlomannes in Germany looking for designers of Rolling Mills in order to...

Snatched from Ukraine by Two Germans and a Dog

In the morning I was loaded into a cattle truck taken to Borhorst, Germany where I was forced to work in a...

Gone on Holiday: Internment on the Isle Of Wight

After the first world war a German prisoner decided to stay in England and he bought a house in Hatley...

A Family Wiped-Out/Lost

Isobella Grinnol was my grandmother and she remained in Burma when we evacuated in 1942... When Rangoon...

Interned

Michael worked as an apprentice machinist in the belfast shipyard at the outset of the second world war......

The Day War Broke Out

As a prison officer, he worked at Norwich prison and once war was in progress he was in charge of prisoners...

My Fathers Time in India during WW IIicon for Story with photo

In the autumn of 1934 he came to Colombo, Sri Lankafor additional education. In 1942 he was brought to the...

Five and a half years in Occupied France

In 1939 Marjorie Prior was a 17 year old student travelling to France for her "gap year" before...

What Happened to Hi

One day, one of Grandma's friends from Brownies, Hi, was gone... Grandma and her friends have never...

The Story of the Italians in Britain WW2

Well, if we look at the Italian surnames in the Arts, Business and Commerce in Scotland we will found that...

Book: 'Traces of War. Survivors of the Burma and Sumatra Railways'icon for Story with photo

Dutch, English, Australian and American POW's were among more than a quarter of a million Asians - so...

Separation

Paul and Hanne were separated and Paul ended up on the Arandora Star ready to be shipped off to Canada......

obiewal - Tjimahi #2

From mid December 1942 to mid July 1944, as a boy between seven and nine, I was a prisoner in the...

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