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80 years ago #OTD on the night of 16-17 April 1941, one of the worst of the #London #Blitz, a landmine fell on Alfred Place, east of Tottenham Court Rd, destroying the West Central #Jewish Girls Club (which housed the West Central Liberal Synagogue). Its 27 occupants were killed
One of them, writing to her parents on 12 Dec1940 had described a 'very bad land last night, the whole of London seemed on fire & the city was a heartbreaking sight, I had to wade through rubble & rivers of water . . if one could only see an end to all this futile destruction'
Her name was Donya, a telephone operator, born in UK in 1905 to #Russian immigrant parents fleeing #pogroms, here with her beloved violin, she spoke English well, corrected her little brother's cockney slang, & took him to his first opera, Samson & Delilah
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Gestern Abend brachte das #Wetter einige #Gewitter mit viel #Regen und #Blitz |e waren auch dabei - und ein bisschen Stimmung einfangen ist mir auch gelungen, auch wenn die Fotos (bedingt durch die Dunkelheit) von der Qualität her (leider) zu wünschen übrig lassen 🙈
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