Index to Stories

Josette Blodgett

Stories:

L’Exode

Related:

Charlotte Heatherley: Recording Josette’s Story


Kaye Brookes

Stories:

That terrible day

And those who were left behind


Dinah Child

Stories:

Great Escapes

Related:

Colin Child: on Hunting Down Stories from the Past


Lillian, Gabrielle and Margaret Coakley

Stories:

Part one: Bang! Bang! Bang!
Part two: To the ship…

Related:

Madeleine de Bruijn: From Paris to Liverpool via Frontstalag 142
Madeleine de Bruijn: Charles Balbis, Captured!


Fernande Keufgens Davies

Stories:

Fernande Davies and her exode

Related:

Post by Joanna Lloyd, whose company published Fernande Davies’s memoirs


Snezana Lawrence and stories of her family

Stories:

Anka’s escape from Belgrade


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Sabine Solange Mantel

Stories:

Memories of the War

The beginning of hostilities: Montbéliard, Moulins and Limoges

Compreignac: from 1941 to 1944

Related:

Ivor Samuels’ Blog

 

 

 

 

 


Olga Samuels

Stories:

1. Memories of World War II
2. Two years on Lake Como: 1941-1943
3. Entry into neutral Switzerland
4. Life in Weiningen: 1944-1946

Related:

Ivor Samuels’ Blog

 


Elly Sherman

Stories:

1. War Years: From Paris to Troyes
2. War Years: Heading South
3. War Years: Some lucky breaks and some not so lucky
4. War Years: Troyes, reunions and some other events
5. War Years: Marseilles, and hotel days and nights
6. War Years: Marseilles and two miracles
7. War Years: Who gave us the tickets, celebrating our departure, and why it was not so good

Related:

An appeal for information to help Elly Sherman’s case for compensation


Philip Smith

Stories:

1. Summer 1940: One family’s exodus
2. Summer 1940: The fateful day
3. Travelling from Fontainebleau
4. La Rochelle
5. Bayonne and to sea

Related:

Hanna Diamond: on Philip Smith’s stories about his trip through France


Daphne Wall

Stories:

Flight from France: from Bordeaux to London

Related:

Daphne Wall comments on writing about her memories