‘I was proud to be part of the war effort against the Nazis. I fought back.' Henny Franks, a Jewish woman who fled the Nazis and joined the British Army, has been awarded with medals she didn’t even know she was entitled to 🎖👏
She said: ‘I had a lot of extended family. Sadly many, who were living in Cologne and moved onto Poland were killed by the Nazis.‘My uncle and aunt in England had four children, the youngest the same age as me. One son was in the Army, one daughter in the ATS, and the youngest went into the WAAF [Women’s Auxiliary Air Force].‘I am still proud I’ve been in the Army. I’ve done my bit. I love England very much.
‘It was very emotional – so emotional. She told me how she and my father had been smuggled into Belgium and when the war started there they went into the South of France.
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