Lucy Glaser Merritt - July 8, 1991
Interned in England
Where was the camp?
It was in the uh, central part of England and therewas barbed wire and armed guards and a bunch of middle-aged men sitting behindit. My father was telling me that they even offered kosher food, so they werebeing nice enough. It wasn't a concentration camp. It was heavily guarded, butit was not a concentration camp.
And there were otherGerman speaking men there.
A lot of refugees, a lot of 'em. They also didcatch some apparently people who had posed the passports as being Jewish andwere not. So maybe they had some reason for the activity. And then my fathercould come to the boat. And they were, all of us came together again. And thenwe came over here and the Bismarck was at sea. Bismarck was a bigboat. And the only thing that we could think of doing was turn off the engine.That's what they did. So they wouldn't hear us. But I don't think they evencared about us.
So you went past the Bismarck,'cause it was blocking the.
Mm-hm, Mm-hm. In the Cunard line. And actually mostof the passengers were sailors who came over here to pick up ships. They hadgood reason to worry about those lines. But they didn't, they did not botherus. We were no match for the Bismarck.
Um, do you-was Exeter bombed? Do you remember?
Pardon?
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