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We lived in Leytonstone and we didn鈥檛 have a bathroom so one night our aunt invited us to stay at her home in Woodford because she had a bathroom and we could all wash our hair and get really clean. Our aunt had said Woodford was quiet and we wouldn鈥檛 have to worry about bombs.
So my five sisters, mother and father travelled over to Woodford and once all the bedding had been put on the floor in the lounge we settled down for the night.
However, about midnight two bombs were dropped in Woodford and one fell in the back garden of the house we were in. The house fell down and we were all buried underneath. The rescue workers arrived and four of us were dug out very quickly but two of my sisters were buried for about an hour or more.
Our mother, father, oldest sister and aunt did not come out alive.
They all died that night. Our lives were never the same again.

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