The Story of a Family in the 1920s

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The brothers say they were all in the house together for about five or six weeks. They couldn't bring them down to the main train station and go over because the guards were actually watching us. Their father drove them outside of town to another train station. From there they would be on their way to England. There was no uproar. There was nothing on the news. The neighbors were very good like that.

When she was 14 years old, Elizabeth Coppin was sent to a place called Peacock Lane in Cork, Ireland. It was a laundry business run by a Catholic order of nuns. Elizabeth noticed bars on its windows.

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