Memories

Moderator - Tom Holloway (tom.holloway@u3a.org.uk)

"Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it";
George Santayana.

Many of the young people who lived during World War Two are still alive. Time has healed the wounds on both sides, but some of those survivors want to be sure that the lessons of the past will be learned by a new generation.

Stories from the 1940's

We invite you to share these extraordinary stories of ordinary people. You may download them and use them as source material in your classroom discussions about the events of those years. You may also view Quicktime movie clips of some of the stories here.

Clickable map of Europe

You can see the geographic location of the people who wrote these stories with this 'clickable map', if you want to read stories from a specific country you just have to click on it...

The Panel of Elders

A volunteer group of people who lived in that time 50 years ago are available to share the experiences of their everyday life in the 1940's. Collectively, we are a living history book.

Food

We are often asked to provide information about wartime rations and recipes in Britain.

You will find some recipes here, but remember that food rationing during the war gave us a much healthier diet than we now have -- you can click here or on the Ration Book (right) to find out more about that.

Remember also, that many millions of others suffered real starvation and hardship and so you will also find information about rations in Slave Labour camps and other extremes of hardship.

Information

The project started in January 1994 and will continue until it no longer serves its purpose.

We would also like children everywhere to ask Senior Citizens who were alive during those years to tell their impressions and experiences and for students to send them to our discussion list. For further information please.....