We are farmers and the prisoners used to come to us asking for shelter in the barns or the hayloft. We had little food, but we used to give them what we could and not one left hungry. There was one such escapee who lived for a long time with us. We would very much like to know where he is now. He was from Central Asia and about 30 years of age, a school teacher.
Jersey is now one of the favourite English holiday resorts.
Everywhere one sees new villas and bungalows, hotels, and guest houses along the sea-shores, in the fertile valleys and green fields of the island. Only along the cliffs, the reinforced concrete coastal defences stick out and remind one of the long past war years. But I had to trouble the memories of the local people for these stories of past experiences because this is what I wanted to impart to the Soviet reader.