Memories of war on film

In these pages you will be able to see and hear members of the community talking about living through the long years of the Second World War. They talk about how their lives changed over the course of the war, how they found themselves doing jobs and taking on roles that they could not have imagined doing a few years earlier. They explain how the difficulties of rationing affected them in different ways and how the rationing of petrol might affect their life and work.

They will tell you about living through the bombing of London in 1940 and moving to a safer place to live and of how they saw what destruction the 'doodlebugs' could cause.

Resources

• Rationing and food shortages
  Being an island has always meant that Britain has had to import large amounts of the food it requires to feed its large population. So when the war...
• Living through the bombing
  In the darkest days of the war people living in Britain and particularly those in cities and large towns must have felt that they would be truly...
• How life changed during war
  For many people the war meant considerable change from their usual daily routine. Many men, and a considerable number of women, went away to...
• Wartime jobs and roles
  During World War Two many people took on jobs which they might not normally have even considered doing. Because so many men and women were involved...
• The Holocaust
  When Allied troops arrived at Auschwitz, Belsen and other camps towards the end of World War Two, they uncovered the horror that the Nazi regime had...