Fleeing from the Nazis in 1938
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Interviewee name: Harry Stevens
Date of event: 1 Jan 1938
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This is part 2 of Harry's story of fleeing from the Nazis in 1938, as told to the children of the King Alfred School in Golders Green. It includes the kids' questions about what life was like for him during and after the war, and ends with an arresting and salutary thought
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