This is chilling, Sue. Such a terrible life changing experience. I know many asylum seekers today who had to abandon their homes at short notice and head straight into the jaws of fear and uncertainty. I hope the next instalment will tell me Kay and Arthur were ok.
Flipping heck. I know so little of this history, Sue. I love reading about it and thinking about how this would feel to us now. It's the kind of thing that's happening in other places in the world and we never think could happen anywhere close to where we are... SHIVERS!
I want to know what happened next. Was this at a time when people knew about the death camps? Did they go thinking they could be taken to their deaths? If so going as a couple when one gets a pass to stay is a decision that keeps turning around in my head.
The camps only began to be known by mid/ late 1942 and full horrors only when they were liberated in '45. The Channel Islands deportations were in September of that year. So although they may have heard some inkling of concentration camps and would have been frightened because they were going into the unknown, I don't think they would have had a fear of the death camps because they wouldn't have really understood what they were. At that time the camps were in Poland so that the German people didn't know what was going on. Kay and Arthur never mentioned that as a fear when I questioned them years afterwards.
This is chilling, Sue. Such a terrible life changing experience. I know many asylum seekers today who had to abandon their homes at short notice and head straight into the jaws of fear and uncertainty. I hope the next instalment will tell me Kay and Arthur were ok.
Such and interesting read. Can't wait for next month to find out what happens to them.
Flipping heck. I know so little of this history, Sue. I love reading about it and thinking about how this would feel to us now. It's the kind of thing that's happening in other places in the world and we never think could happen anywhere close to where we are... SHIVERS!
I agree with all previous comments and wish these posts, with the fascinating photos, were in one book so I could keep and read and enjoy in hard copy
I want to know what happened next. Was this at a time when people knew about the death camps? Did they go thinking they could be taken to their deaths? If so going as a couple when one gets a pass to stay is a decision that keeps turning around in my head.
The camps only began to be known by mid/ late 1942 and full horrors only when they were liberated in '45. The Channel Islands deportations were in September of that year. So although they may have heard some inkling of concentration camps and would have been frightened because they were going into the unknown, I don't think they would have had a fear of the death camps because they wouldn't have really understood what they were. At that time the camps were in Poland so that the German people didn't know what was going on. Kay and Arthur never mentioned that as a fear when I questioned them years afterwards.