RT. HON. SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL
ANNE FRANK
ROUND TABLE OF NEBRASKA
The Bookworm 2501 S. 90th St
Omaha Nebraska, 68124
Omaha Chapter of the International Churchill Society
https://churchillsocietyomaha.org/
May 24th
Sunday 1:30 pm at the Bookworm
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Martin Gilbert’s
Winston S. Churchill Volume 7 Finest Hour 1939-1940
Chapter 22 ‘The British People Will Fight On’ (1983, pages 437-449)
Andrew Roberts’
Churchill Walking With Destiny
Chapter 21 ‘The Fall of France: May-June 1940 (2018, pages 548-549)
Hannah Pick-Goslar’s
My Friend Anne Frank Chapter 13 ‘The Lost Train’ (2023, pages 208-222)
Special Events at the
Danville Iowa Museum
Danville Station
Library Museum
Anne Frank Pen Pal Letters
We will celebrate Anne Frank's birthday this year on Friday, June 12th, 2:00-5:00 p.m. We will serve cake and lemonade.
August 19 through September 30 the Burlington Library will feature Americans and the Holocaust: A traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association. Visitors to this exhibit will receive a pass to visit our Anne Frank Museum at no charge.
May 23 1940
France
From all I hear Winston is proving simply first-rate. I am delighted about it—a Government at least which I can wholeheartedly support.
Excerpt from Martin Gilbert’s The Churchill Documents Volume 15 Never Surrender May 1940-December 1940 (1994, pages 128-130)
Ronald Cartland2 to his mother
(Barbara Cartland, ‘Ronald Cartland)
23 May 1940
From all I hear Winston is proving simply first-rate. I am delighted about it—a Government at least which I can wholeheartedly support.
2John Ronald Hamilton Cartland, 1907-40. Brother of Barbara Cartland. Their father was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 May 1918. Educated at Charterhouse. Worked at the Conservative Central Office, 1927-35. Conservative MP for King’s Norton, 1935-40. Captain, 53rd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, British Expeditionary Force, 1940. Killed in action in France, 30 May 1940. Churchill wrote of him, on 7 November 1941 (in the preface to Barbara Cartland’s book Ronald Cartland): ‘At a time when our political life had become feckless and dull, he spoke fearlessly for Britian. His words and acts were instinct with the sense of our country’s traditions and duty. His courage and bearing inspired those who met him or heard him.’ Ronald Cartland’s brother Anthony was killed in action on the previous day, 29 May 1940.
1945
Germany
I prayed for safety, for the bombs to stop, even though I knew they meant the ‘good guys’ were trying to save us.
Excerpt from Hannah Pick-Goslar’s
My Friend Anne Frank (2023, Page 217)
‘Get on the ground! Get on the ground!’ the soldiers shouted at us.
It was disorienting, this shift from the monotonous forward motion of the train, body vibrating, eyes closed, wondering when all the coughing and groaning surrounding me might come to a merciful end, only to suddenly find myself being hauled out of the train.
‘Run into the fields, get away from the train,’ a soldier holding a submachine gun shouted at me. ‘Get away from the train, fast!’
That’s how I found myself lying on the dirt, my body covering Gabi’s, the bombs sounding like claps of approaching thunder. We heard the bombers flying overhead. Terrifying booms echoed around us. There was also artillery fire and some people were screaming. I felt entirely exposed, with only my prayers to God to stave off the terror I felt. I prayed for safety, for the bombs to stop, even though I knew they meant the ‘good guys’ were trying to save us.
‘OK, all clear. Get back on the trains now,’ the soldiers shouted once they thought a bombardment, which could last as long as an hour and a half, was finally over.