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I was a young girl when the war started. I remember the day the war started. We were supposed to go on a day out but dad was in the terratorial army and got called up.

I remember being gather with all the other children in the school hall with a label on, waiting to be evacuated but mum came to get me and take me back home.

We lived in Bramley and I was seven years old. We were all supposed to be evacuated because of the importance of Kirkstall forge, the power station, and Barnbow where they manufactured tanks at Boston Spa. You can still see the mounds where the air raid shelters were.

They used to call it a "bombers moon"
when it would shine on the river and
the planes could follow the
moonlight on the river to the forge.

I was in Brighton when london was bombed and watched the planes go overhead.

My Father was billited to Arnhem in Holland. He stayed with a Dutch family, surname Pas. They had 5 daughters and one son. The Germans took the son and my father searched for him for a long while after but we never found any records of him. They took in a Jewish girl and passed her off as their missing child that was on record.

My father stayed in touch with them for 20 years or more afterwards.

I remember they were called Louise, Toose, Helga and Hetty Pas. They moved to Zedham and we lost touch.

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