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The wartime diary found in a jumble sale
The diary of Jewish girls who fled Vienna during the war was found in a jumble sale.
Rummaging around a jumble sale more than 50 years ago, Helen Connolly found an old tattered diary written by a teenager.
On the front cover it simply read 鈥楬arris House鈥�.
What she had accidentally found was a collective diary written by the girls of the Southport Jewish refugee hostel in 1940.
The diary gives a vivid account of life for these young exiles from Austria and Germany.
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