Finding humanity in a homogeneous stream

I had to re blog this post ……

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In the face of the ongoing refugee crisis I keep telling myself that it is important to learn from history and realize that the world has dealt with refugees over many generations. As outlined in my earlier post Refugees, Germany and the rest of the world I am reminded of Kathryn Hulme’s experiences in 1945 – 1950.

A shipyard welder during the second world war, Kathryn Hulme joined the relief movement via the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) in Europe in 1945,after a few weeks training in France. As deputy to a French director, and with a team of 12 other field workers from 5 different nationalities, she was put in charge of 20.000 polish displaced people (DP’s). She wrote down her experiences in ‘The wild place’ (1953) and also in a section of  ‘Undiscovered country’ (1967).

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration UNRRA was established in 1943, and was replaced…

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Feeling like it’s Friday

Now I know I’m not nuts

I’m so glad I found this today – I’ve been thinking I’m going slightly round the bend!   Plot lines, new characters, the village they all live in, even the colours of their clothes and what their houses are furnished with – all of these voices and ideas are running around in my head.  Yikes – I’m so glad I’ve got a couple of weeks free now when I can write to my heart’s content.  Ahem, that is when I’ve finished clearing out the unwanted clutter in the kitchen, reclaimed the worktops, made a start (and hopefully finished) the same for the living room and ……..