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The much sunk aircraft carrier H.M.S. Ark Royal, despite German broadcasts to the contrary, is here seen comfortably berthed in a Home Port after her travels which included visits to South Africa and South America, during which she was a continuous menace to the Nazi raiders, both on the sea and in the air. A Swordfish reconnaissance machine hoisted on board for experimental purposes.

To mark the roads of a 'blacked-out England. Yorkshire workmen carry one of the giant stencils which they use for marking white patches down the centre of roads, to act as a guide to vehicles travelling without lights.

Marion C. was born on November 28, 1936 in Berlin, Germany. She describes her family. She explains that her parents’ businesses were destroyed during Kristallnacht. She describes how her parents were assigned to do slave labour within the city while she stayed in a daycare centre. She describes her father’s attempt to have their family smuggled across the Swiss border and his arrest. Marion describes ...

Erna S. was born in Przasnysz, Poland on February 15, 1923. She describes her family and their strong religious faith. She describes the Jewish community and changes after 1933. She discusses the destruction of her family’s business and fleeing to Białystok. She describes being sent to a Soviet labour camp and the conditions. Erna recalls her family moving to Arkhangel’sk after the German invasion ...