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Interview Summary
Interview with Alice Anson (nee Gross) who was born in Vienna in 1924 and emigrated to England in 1938 on the Kindertransport. She describes her family background including her parents lack of religious observance; her memory of the Anschluss including seeing Hitler's motorcade going through the Vienesse streets in 1938; her grandfather's and father's businesses; her journey on the Kindertransport aged 14 including travelling by train and boat and looking after two smaller children; the family she stayed with in Surrey where she worked as a domestic help; the emigration of her parents to London in 1939; her apprenticeship in dressmaking at Debenham and Freebody; her World War II experiences including joining the WAAFs at age 18 and working for the RAF photoraphic unit in Croydon and Gatwick and Egypt after the war; her working life as a printer and photographer following the war; her marriage to Colin Anson in 1951 and the birth of her children; her involvement with voluntary work and charities including running play schools in Harrow, setting up a furniture scheme , running Gingerbread and working with Women's Aid and Rape Crisis.

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