Jantje Huggins on her family s farm in the Netherlands in her youth
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
When war arrived, her older brother and other teenage boys were sent to labour camps in Germany.
“My older sister and I were ordered to make German uniforms. We both refused and were held overnight, she recalled.
VE Day anniversary celebrations at Spring Lodge care home in Woolverstone, near Ipswich
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
“We were allowed home in the morning, to mother’s great joy. She was afraid we had also been sent to Germany.”
Mrs Huggins remembers her sadness at seeing Jewish shop owners rounded up and sent to concentration camps.
Jantje Huggins on her family s farm in the Netherlands in her youth
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
When war arrived, her older brother and other teenage boys were sent to labour camps in Germany.
“My older sister and I were ordered to make German uniforms. We both refused and were held overnight, she recalled.
VE Day anniversary celebrations at Spring Lodge care home in Woolverstone, near Ipswich
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
“We were allowed home in the morning, to mother’s great joy. She was afraid we had also been sent to Germany.”
Mrs Huggins remembers her sadness at seeing Jewish shop owners rounded up and sent to concentration camps.