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Human beings are very resilient

   They had a refugee committee in Manchester. They had some generous people. What they did is they found us homes. When we came to this country, we spent seven days, a week with my uncle. And then my parents went to one place in South Manchester, my sister went to another place even further South Manchester and I stayed in North Manchester at a place called Bolton.

   I remember when war was declared I was with these people in Bolton, we were listening to the radio at eleven o' clock. But we just took it. I don't know whether you very young people, whether you can understand it. These things were happening and we just took it allright, we said okay, some bombs are coming down, we're sitting under the stairs somewhere, hoping it doesn't hit. We weren't frightened or anything like that. I don't know: how did we do it? Human beings are very resilient.
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