The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond The Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival by Mona Golabek & Lee Cohen

Author:Mona Golabek & Lee Cohen [GOLABEK, MONA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO004000
ISBN: 9780446506663
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 2007-07-31T05:00:00+00:00

The boys tried bravely to banter away their fear. “That’s a Jerry for sure, listen to the motor,” Paul said as the noise got closer.

“No, that’s ours, here it comes in for the kill!” Aaron answered.

Then no one could talk as the noise of the antiaircraft guns blasted their earsplitting barrage.

“That’ll get ’em,” one of the little boys bragged. But the next sounds were boom, boom, boom—each one a bomb, each one hitting their city of London. Boom, boom, and boom again; nothing the RAF or the antiaircraft guns could do stopped them. Lisa cowered in the corner under a blanket and held Gina’s hand. The piercing sounds sent the horrible images of Kristallnacht racing again through her mind.

Several hours later, a short blast of the “all clear” sounded and residents from up and down Willesden Lane appeared in the streets, climbing out of basements and metal backyard shelters.

“We’re all right, how about you folks?” came the nervous question echoing through the neighborhood.

“All okay here.” “We’re fine.” “Us too,” were the answers heard up and down the street.

Just as the neighbors began to collect themselves, someone yelled, “Look at the sky!”

Everyone looked up at the red glow. At first they thought it was a brilliant fall sunset. The red sky, however, was not in the west, it was in the east; the East End of London was burning.

After a brief respite the sirens sounded again and everyone descended once more into their protective shells and waited, terrified and confused.

Over the next forty-eight hours, they went back and forth, day and night, into the shelter. When the weekend was over, two thousand tons of bombs had been dropped onto the docks and industrial area of the Cockney heart of London—right in the neighborhood of Platz & Sons.

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