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May Blitz. I was 12 years old when war broke out. We were heavily bombed in Liverpool. I lived close by St Anne's School and Church. When the raids started my mother and I would sit under the stairs, but this night she said 'I think there is a lull' so we sat in the kitchen. The next thing all the windows were blown in and there was damage to the house. I got shrapnel in my foot and was taken to hospital. St Anne's School was hit by a bomb. I had a lucky escape.
1949 I got married, my husband George was a soldier in the Artillary 11th Armoured Division, his Batalion were the first to liberate Belsen Camp Germany. My husband said it was dreadful the conditions, smell and the gas chambers. They were there until reinforcements arrived. He was only a boy at the time.
V.E. I remember a street party, dancing on the air raid shelters, everyone helped with the little food they had.
I am a widow now age 78, my husband died 15 years ago.

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