see-through faith

it sounds rather horrific doesn’t it – IMPERIAL WAR – and I have to confess I wasn’t that keen on going to the Imperial war museum this morning before DD flew back to Finland -but I’m glad I did it was so good

we visited the Children’s War department -which was a child’s eye view of WW2. It was absolutely marvellous. There was so much to see – about the evacuation from London (and other big cities) , rationing, and so on.

We also spent a long time (about 2 hrs) in the Holocaust memorial … a stark reminder of the atrocities committed against the Jews (and others) by the Nazis. I took a school group to Auschwich several years ago as part of a Commenius exchange,  and we learnt a lot. I’ll never forget the cramped quarters of Birkenhau and the shooting wall (so vividly displayed in Schindler’s List)  but I have to say the exhibition in the IWM was very, very good.

We started our time there looking at the new exhibition which was about Caribbean men and women who fought in the British Army services over the years. What struck me most in that was the real racism that was prevalent in the forces. Many of them brought to the UK to be flight engineers, only to be told on arrival that they were not needed. Some things never change. In Robes last week we met a couple of eastern europeans who were here in the UK because they’d come here on a contract, only for the job never to materialise and they were stranded here without the means to get back home (and no actual physical home to return to)

DD left ok this evening. I’ll fly back on Tuesday.

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