The wartime diary found in a jumble sale

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Rummaging around a jumble sale more than 50 years ago, Helen Connolly found an old tattered diary written by a teenager. On the front cover it simply read ‘Harris House’. What she had accidentally found was a collective diary written by the girls of the Southport Jewish refugee hostel in 1940. The diary gives a vivid account of life for these young exiles from Austria and Germany. Photo credit: Getty