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My name is Roselle Alarcon ne茅 Fromage

[When the Germans came]
My schooling days were over as my school went to England but my parents did not want me to go they said we all stay together I was 13陆 years old and the leaving age was 14yrs so I did not go back to school, but help on the farm. In 1942 they started building the big guns at the Frie Baton (the mirus) and then we had the slave labour coming to the farm as we were close by, they were very hungry and ask for food or milk etc all the farms around help them to survive with out the farmers many more would have died, they worked around the clock in non stop. We had very little fuel and went on turn the cow pads to dry for to burn to be able to make a fire on the open fire sometimes the slave workers brought some wood from their work also desel for our candel lights they could have been shot for doing that. But we were the lucky ones to be on a farm we never went hungry, everyone help one another to serviev. Then came to Vega with our Red Cross parsels what excitement to be able to go and fetch our parsels and van and we all got aboard for town to see the troops arrive at the harbour they were hundred of people what a day that was and a great relief after five long years. After the liberation a Spanish republican says in Guernsey as he could not go back home as Franco was still in power, so he worked on my parents farm and we got married in 1947 he the last slave labourer in Guernsey

Roselle Alarcon
Age 78
[in Feb 2005]

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