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Otto Pfromm and Katharina Sch
Katharina Sch and Otto Pfromm's account of the events at Klosterstraße 6 and Wildemannsgasse 11.
Clara H
Clara H's account of the events at Moltkestraße nos. 12 and 7.
Minna G and Albrecht von E
Minna G and Albrecht von E's account of the events at Salztorstraße, cemeteries in Kassel in the week following the bombing.
Interview with Heather Hindley
Heather Hindley was a young girl living in Nottingham and attending private school when war was declared. She discusses air raids, sleeping in her grandparents’ shelter and rationing. She talks about the experience of moving to the countryside at…
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter
Interview with Alan Mann
Alan Mann was born in Lewisham, London and left school aged 14 to begin an engineering apprenticeship at RAF Kidbrooke and with de Havilland. He describes being bombed and what it was like in the workshops. After the war he had a career with de…
Interview with Mary Stuart
Mary Stuart, nee Atkins, was the youngest of nine children who, during the Second World War, lived on the island of Malta. She tells of her love of aviation and how she spent time on the roof of her house when Spitfires flew over. Mary recollects…
Interview with Sybil Green
Sybil was born in Bracebridge near Lincoln, she went to Bracebridge School then left at fourteen to work first at a Co-op store and then at and electric shop. Sybil talks about civilian life in wartime, her family working at Foster Quinns, fire…
Ludwig Heinemann and Karl M
Ludwig Heinemann and Karl M's account of the events at Frankfurter Straße 26/28 (City Tax Offices, public air raid shelter), Hartwigstraße, Wolfsschlucht 22.
Gottlieb Sunkel and August Lehnebach
Gottlieb Sunkel and August Lehnebach's account of the events at the Civic Centre.
Otto Kappel
Otto Kappel's account of the events at Wildemannsgasse 24, Fisch-gasse.
Wilhelm Carl
Wilhelm Carl's account of the events at Wildemannsgasse 32.
Andreas N
Andreas N's account of the events at the City Cleaning Department, Franzgraben 85.
Interview with Frank Page
Frank Page grew up near Teddington Locks and was working for an engineering firm when the war started. His house was bombed and he remembers recovering bodies from the ruins and says he joined the RAF to get his revenge on the Germans. His pilot…
Interview with Thomas Peter Payne. One
Thomas was born in Hemel Hempstead in 1925, one of four children and lived in a row of terraced houses with very basic sanitation. The end property was a public house with no gas or electricity, with only paraffin lamps and candles. His first…
Interview with Barry Smith
Barry passed the RAF’s apprentice entrance examination in February 1945, aged 15, and went to RAF Halton to become an electrician. He discusses the three training which resulted in the First Ordinary National Certificate.
In 1948, Barry was…
In 1948, Barry was…
Ernst Exner
Ernst Exner's account of the events at Kastenalsgasse 5.
Grete G
Grete G's account of the events at Große Rosenstraße 9.
Erich Thom and Karl B
Erich Thom and Karl B's account of the events at Mombachstraße 10/12 (abattoir)/Leipziger Straße 79.
Elisabeth Sch
Elisabeth Sch's account of the events at Jägerstraße 9 and 5.
August Keppler
August Keppler's account of the events at Obere Karlsstraße 12/14 (Old Townhall, Public Welfare Office).
Wilhelm Galenbeck and Karl Bunge
Wilhelm Galenbeck and Karl Bunge's account of the events at Obere Karlsstraße 18, Karlsplatz 2 (Youth Welfare Offices and print shop).
Gustav H
Gustav H's account of the events at Schlößchen Schönfeld, city plant nursery near Schönfeld Park, Hinter der Waage 9.
Heinrich O
Heinrich O's account of the events at Ständeplatz 16 ½ (Department for Economic Affairs), Brüderstraße 14.
Heinrich Stöppler
Heinrich Stöppler's account of the events at Franzgraben 85 (Municipal Cleaning Department).
Kitty Michel
Kitty Michel's account of the events at Platz der SA (Housing Inspectorate), old Lutheran church am Graben.