Ann Fox - “They were very frightened and bedraggled”

My husband`s father, Julian Fox of Wellington, Somerset, worked as part of the Quaker Lifeline organisation in 1939.  One Friday in August he returned home with two small girls for whom it had been too late to find a home or family.  They were unaccompanied and very frightened and bedraggled.  They stayed for five or six years and were joined by several other evacuees from London.  They were eventually reunited with their parents, who had escaped via Sweden, and went to New York.  The eldest, Marian, had developed a stress stomach ulcer for which she was eventually compensated by the Germans.  She went to Florida and survived at least one hurricane. Her sister Ushi, now Sue, lives in New York and is a grandmother.

Ann Fox