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Description: | 13 ms diaries (and 1 folder of loose diary notes) written by the son of Jewish emigres from Russia while he was a schoolboy in Grimsby, Lincolnshire (January 1914 - September 1919) and while working in London and Cheshire for an advertising agency and (from 1941 onwards) for the Ministry of Information (February 1938 - November 1945) with useful references to civilian conditions, anti-semitism, politics and world events during both world wars, interesting details of conscientious objection, the outbreak of war (1914 and 1939), the plight of refugees from continental Europe, air raids on Grimsby (1915 - 1917), London (1940 - 1945) and Manchester (1940), including vivid descriptions of the Blitz and V weapon attacks, VE and VJ day celebrations and also mentioning American servicemen in the United Kingdom during the Second World War and trips to Scandinavia (summer 1938), and France (August 1939); together with 4 ms diaries kept by his aunt Jeanne Berman (July 1914 - September 1919) covering life in Grimsby during the First World War and referring briefly to women's suffrage, air raids and her views on world events. Two photographs of Miller, as a schoolboy and in later life, have been copied and placed with the collection.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 2002-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Miller, Harry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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