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Prisoner of War, Escape and Journey Home (3)icon for Recommended story

Some of the lads were talking of trying to get back to Stalag 8B but Bluey and I had other ideas, the...

Fleeing from Czechoslovakia to Britain in Spring 1939 - Part One - Family pressure to leave Prague. Arrival in Maida Vale.icon for Recommended story

He had been brought up in Bohemia, the Bohemian part of Czechoslovakia in a little village and sent to...

Nina Orsten's Escape from Ravensbruck Pt 1icon for Recommended story

The Germans in that part of Czechoslovakia, Moravia and the Sudetenland which was the border between...

People's Police force for Czecheslovakiaicon for Recommended story

My grandfather had served with the Middlesex Regiment in the First World War and was a member of the...

My Father was on Both Sidesicon for Recommended story

When Chamberlain allowed the Germans into Czechoslovakia, they began to clear the Sudetenland. My...

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A Soldier's Reminiscences of World War 2

Eventually I, with my two mates Colin McDonald, the Aussie, and Ralph Green, joined a 24 strong working...

Prisoner of War, Escape and Journey Home

For instance, when they spoke of German victories at the Russian front or in France, or of Frau Einz, our...

Prisoner of War, Escape and Journey Home

This reprisal was because when the Canadians raided Dieppe they took German prisoners and handcuffed them...

Nina Orsten's Escape from Ravensbruck Pt 2

I was taken there and all my clothes and everything was taken from me and I got prison clothes on and a...

Prisoner of War, Escape and Journey Home (4)

We were to assist the Russians as the Germans could have broken through Turkey, making for the Suez canal....

Prisoner of War, Escape and Journey Home - Afterwards

Leo and his son Peter came to England and stayed with us, but Herta and her daughter were not allowed to...

Nina Orsten's Escape from Ravensbruck Pt 5

So the Colonel promised me that he was going to arrange for a jeep to take us to the next sector, which...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 6 'The long march to freedom

We passed from Czechoslovakia through Ansig Oberstentansdorf and other towns which had been flattened by...

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Zabreh, then known by its German name of Hohenstadt, is in northern Moravia, the eastern province of what...

Jack South's Storyicon for Story with photo

According to the IRC records this happened in Tunisia on the 19th of December 1941 and it took 2 months to...

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Travelling around at that time was very restricted, so we did not get to see much of East Germany other...

Winged Chariots -Part 2: How not to parachute

Bob Pyett and his fellow crew members soon realised while en route for a second raid on Chemnitz —...

Bill's Story

The Russians were in the Ukraine for about 2 years when war broke out between Germany and Russia, and then...

Long Journey to Freedom

He managed to escape prior to be handed over to the Gestapo and made his way via Yugoslavia to Beirut where...

The Friends Of Czechoslovakia

I remember the story of Madam Lilly Marley and her husband, who hid in the reeds from the Gestapo as they...

A Christian Family Saved Twice by a Jew

When Jewish Mr Loewy came from Schlomannes in Germany looking for designers of Rolling Mills in order to...

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Story told by Joan Peare. My Father, Bertie James New, served in the First World War and had remained very...

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