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Liz Barrett interviewed by Becky Kendall at the Guille-Alles Library 5/2/2005. Recording transcribed by John David. Liz Barret was seven when the Island was occupied.

I remember my mother said 鈥渨e鈥檙e all going to go at grandma鈥檚, and she lives at Port Grat, and she said were all going to go down there, with auntie Gertie and uncle and all the rest of them, we鈥檙e all going to go down there and go into Port Grat bay. So get yourself ready and wear your warm clothes鈥� and this sort of thing. And so we went down there and we went down onto the beach. I鈥檝e a feeling it was dark, or it got dark anyway, and we went down amongst the rocks, and I can remember my auntie saying 鈥淚f we鈥檙e not killed by the Germans we鈥檒l be killed by the rats in these rocks.鈥� I don鈥檛 know why I remember that but I did. And then the same auntie said 鈥淚鈥檝e had enough of this, let鈥檚 go back鈥�. And we went back to grandma鈥檚 house, so there was them and their family and us, I haven鈥檛 got a brother and sister, so we went back to grandma鈥檚 house, and then we all went back to our homes after that, and that鈥檚 when they flew over, they hadn鈥檛 bombed, they flew over that time, but later on , when they bombed the harbour, my father was down there that time, he was down there with two of his lorries with loads of tomatoes in them, because he was helping out the growers at that time to get them out, because he was a builder, so he was helping them, not otherwise?
I鈥︹�︹��. Where abouts were you, when they bombed down at the harbour?
We were at our house at the Capelles, at the bungalow where we lived. My mother was scared, my dad was away, he was being bombed at the weighbridge, Mum was scared to death, we jumped over the wall and went into the next house and went underneath their staircase, because we didn鈥檛 have one, we only had a bungalow. And she was very scared, she was praying to God anyway. Then we all came back, and dad finally came back.

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