Tag #137144 - Interview #78082 (marietta smolkova)

My sister and I had work arranged in one Jewish house in London, she as a cook and I as a chambermaid. We even had black dresses with white caps and aprons made, like proper servants. My sister already had all of her papers, but I wasn't 18 yet, and so my work permit wasn't valid until from August 1938. However, the war already began on 1st September [15], so my sister waited here with me, and then it was already impossible to leave.