Celebrating Christmas as a POW
Heroes Remember - The Second World War
Celebrating Christmas as a POW
Transcript
At Christmas or around that time we were
issued cigarettes from the Germans.
I think they were made of wood chips,
they tasted that way but ya we got cigarettes.
We would save up Christmas stuff or Red Cross
boxes so that we could celebrate on Christmas.
Ya, that’s right, we still celebrated Christmas
with whatever we had and we enjoyed it.
We celebrated and put on plays too.
Some of them put on plays for Christmas.
Ya we had a real Christmas concert
one year especially. And there was good
actors and whatnot. Somebody would lead it,
maybe there was a school teacher,
maybe they had Christmas concerts, I don’t know.
Christmas always meant something to us.
We didn’t go without Christmas.
Description
Mr. Coles share the story of how the prisoner never went without celebrating Christmas, albeit in their own unique way.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- July 29, 2017
- Duration:
- 0:54
- Person Interviewed:
- Elmer Cole
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Dieppe
- Battle/Campaign:
- Dieppe
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Calgary Tanks
- Rank:
- Trooper
- Date modified: