East End To Essex
Jewish Migration Routes
Rhoda Fox
"I was evacuated to a little place called Hustpierpoint, which is nine miles from Brighton. I’ll tell you something very interesting, the first week I was there, when the woman washed my hair, she kept feeling my head and banging it. And I was too afraid, so I said you’re hurting me, what are you doing? She said I’m looking for horns. There was, you know- I wouldn’t say they were ignorant, but they were very unknowledgeable people, they really thought Jewish people had horns, because of that er, Moses sculpture with the horns that er er… They’d never met a Jewish person in their life."
"Oh yes, I, I, there was a bakers shop that did all the baking, the Jewish baking, the challahs, and all the bread, and the youngest daughter was a very close friend of mine. And we’d often go there and have the fresh hot bread, with jam on, and that was the biggest treat you could possibly imagine, as her father took them out the oven. Red hot, just cooled down, I don’t eat butter, but used to have jam on it. Little things like that that keep still in my mind."
"And another time he was, we used to have these little iron posts along the, along the street, I don’t think you get them now, I don’t know what they were there for, there was no traffic, possibly to hitch horse, horses reigns. Anyway he was walking along and decided to leap frog over these stone pillars and he fell and bumped his head and a great big bump came up on his head. Lady rushed out, picked him up and put a penny on his, penny on his head to press the bump down, And said now get yourself a glass of lemonade, and what did he buy? A book! A comic! "