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Doreen Jacobs War Time Memories

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Doreen Jacobs
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East End of London
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Civilian
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A4465082
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15 July 2005

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Emma Sinclair from The Folkestone School for Girls and has been added to the website on behalf of Doreen Emily Jacobs with her permission and she fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

Doreen Jacobs War Time Memories

Doreen Emily Jacobs lived in East London she was 3 when the war broke out and 9 when it ended.

She was in a family of ten children and got bombed out of the house in 1941. She was then sent to a temporary flat. The family could have stayed there but her mother wanted to go back to the house when it was rebuilt.

At the end of the war she was evacuated, she wasn’t old enough at the beginning but when her sisters returned for a short while she went back with them, but to a different place. They went to Blackpool to stay with a lady who had 5 children altogether. They tried to separate Doreen and her sisters but her oldest sister refused.

She once decided to go to the library but on the way she stopped off at a friend’s and changed her mind. A bit later on the library was bombed and her mother was understandably worried sick about Doreen, when she saw her instead of being pleased to see me she gave me a hiding.

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