Coronavirus crisis doesn't compare to what an elderly couple have experienced in their lifetime.
For most of us, it is almost impossible to comprehend the ferocity and regularity with which life was upended during the first half of the 20th century. Plague and conflict emerged on an epic scale, again and again. Loss and restriction were routine; disaster was its own season.
Until a polio vaccine came into use in the 1950s, outbreaks occurred somewhere in the country nearly every spring. By the early 1920s, Naomi's baby sister was stricken, leaving one of her legs permanently paralysed. “The minute we got to Holland, it seemed so wonderful that there were kind people there on the station platform,’’ Eva once told an interviewer for a feminist oral history project. “They gave you orange juice and smiled at you.”“And then, when we were in England,’’ she said, “I very soon realised that I was extremely lonely.”
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