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From Europe to South America: War, nursing and the Red Cross

September 13, 2020 No Comments

During and after World War II, both of my father’s sisters were nurses. My Aunt Sigrid, the eldest, six years older than my father, began training as a nurse at the age of 18, in 1931, – the minimum age at the time. At the time my father’s family were

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