- Contributed by听
- Back2Backs
- People in story:听
- Sarah Lieberson nee Seager
- Location of story:听
- Birmingham
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3826415
- Contributed on:听
- 24 March 2005
This story was told to me at the Birmingham Back to Backs by Sarah Lieberson and has been added to the site with her permission
"My twin sister married a GI on a freezing January day, at the synagogue on the Bristol Road. She had met him at the 'Comm', the Community Hall, where there was a dance every Sunday. He was from Chicago and had to go back to the States twelve months before my sister. The whole family went to see her off at Waterloo and it was terrible, dreadful. There were hundreds of women there. The US government paid for the wives to travel by boat. For many women, when they arrived, there was no husband; their husband had disappeared. But my sister has celebrated 60 years of marriage, and now lives in California.
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