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VE & VJ Day 80

Letters to Loved Ones

Tag: Refugee

Lowit letter
Herbert Lowit

Herbert Lowit to Karl Lowit

"I am alive and well and hope the same of you. Surely you will already have started working in the garden"

Sent from: Czechoslovak Fieldpost at the Siege of Dunkirk in northern France

Date of letter: 12 February 1945

Mayen letter
Jupp Dernbach Mayen

A fairy story by Jupp Dernbach Mayen to Mireille Dernbach

"This is the story for your birthday. I am so terribly sorry that I can't be with you and mummy."

Sent from: Huyton, Liverpool

Date of letter: 3 September 1940

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A note on language

The items published here have been contributed by members of the public and have not been edited by DCMS or Imperial War Museums except to obscure personal data potentially still sensitive today. The letters contain language and assumptions that represent the views and attitudes of the time, some of which may be considered outdated, prejudiced or discriminatory today.

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