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Edith Noordewier Foley was born in 1930 to a Dutch family living in Berlin, Germany. Foley recounts the horrors of civilian life in war-torn Germany from hearing the airplanes and bombings most nights, the smell of dead bodies on her way to school, and severe rationing to “fear so constant it became part of you.” Foley’s house was destroyed by a bomb and her family was moved to a village west of Berlin. Prior to his death from a kidney infection in 1941, Foley’s father, a journalist, spied for the Dutch government and helped smuggle Jews and other individuals out of Germany into the Netherlands. She talks about surviving on boiled acorns during the war. Foley herself was smuggled out of Germany in 1946 in a Red Cross convoy at the behest of her half-brother and was put in a girls boarding school for war-torn children.
Digital
English
59m 18s
Edith Foley, Interview, National Home Front Project, Washington College, Chestertown Maryland
Interview was recorded by Brady Townsend and Molli Cole for the Starr Center of the American Experience National Homefront Project