大象传媒

Edited Transcript of Margaret Le Cras interviewing Mrs Evelyn Bryce

We were living at Lower St Saviours, and we were planning on going away, and my father decided he wasn鈥檛 going so we stayed, two sisters and a brother, so we stayed there and made the most of it.
We were disappointed in a way, we had never been away, out of the island, and I was going to be eighteen. So we were planning on going on holiday, when the war came. The day the Germans landed, it was a Sunday lunch time, and we鈥檇 just about finished our lunch, and next door had a pigsty that we were using for a shelter, so when the sirens went we went over the hedge to next door. My grandmother was at the [ ] and she wasn鈥檛 coming, and we didn鈥檛 know why, we didn鈥檛 know what was going to happen, we were all frightened really, and my mother was shaking. So we went, and here comes my grandmother. We said 鈥淕ran, where have you been?鈥� 鈥淲ell I was changing my apron鈥�. We told her off, but she came. My sister reminded me, when I told her that 鈥� she didn鈥檛 remember that, because my sister is about ten years younger than me and she said 鈥淲e were in that shelter, and we heard a voice saying 鈥渃ome on out of there, we know you鈥檙e there鈥�, we thought it was a German, and it was our uncle, he knew we were there, you see, because he [ ] my grandmother. So that was the beginning. But quite honestly, the Germans did not bother us all that much, except that they鈥檇 just pop in our house, there was a cook house just five minutes, less than five minutes from our house, and they used to just walk in and sit down. But they brought bread for my father, black bread, and my brother, we didn鈥檛 like it, we had the other stuff. But that鈥檚 how it was, we got on with it, as well as we could,

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