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Jewish refugees in London helping to fill sandbags at University College Hospital in August 1939. In the build-up to World War II Britain became a place of refuge for Jews fleeing Nazism in mainland Europe, with the Jewish Refugee Council and German Jewish Aid Committee assiting to place refugees with sypathetic families. However with the outbreak of war many refugees were regarded with suspicion and were advised not to speak German in public, many were also interned.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:	06835
Identifier:	IV 169 Vol.1
Date:	1940

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