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Living under occupation - soap shortage

by Guernseymuseum

Contributed by
Guernseymuseum
People in story:
RUTH WALSH.
Location of story:
guernsey
Background to story:
Civilian
Article ID:
A4014154
Contributed on:
06 May 2005

I know children would say now — “ Oh good, we don’t have to wash or we don’t have to shower” - and I suppose we would have been saying that but its not very healthy and we started to suffer from skin diseases. I can remember having scabies at some point, which I must have been about six years old.
RUTH WALSH.

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