Trude opened her eyes, and knew that a dreadful day was coming up. She could hear an angry voice on the radio, shouting out what seemed like a speech.
She instantly knew who this was, and switched off the radio. As she read the newspaper on her doorstep, she felt a bit of panic.
Her brother and father were right above her shoulders. The headline read ‘GERMANY RECEIVES PART OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA!’.
She quickly flipped through the pages towards the article. Luckily, Slovakia wasn’t taken, but they all had one thing in their minds;
when would the Germans arrive in Bratislava? As they sat on the couch and thought about this very subject, Trude’s father remembered she had to go to school.
She had to walk the one and a half miles to school that day, but each step felt horrible. Each step, she asked herself ‘What will happen to my house?’, ‘Will we all be okay?’.
After a day at school where everybody else also seemed to be worried, she went to sleep.
The next morning felt regular, and Trude got onto the tram to school. But as she looked out of the window in Math class,
the thing that everyone was scared of appeared. The Germans. She could see the tanks rolling outside the window,
smashing up glass bottles and rocks. The schoolmaster came to their door and opened it. ‘Everybody here, grab your belongings and go home’.
As everybody silently grabbed their backpacks, Trude was worried sick about not just her fate but also her families’. That night, she only got two hours of sleep,
worries swirling in her head.

Two months had passed since these happenings. Trude woke up yet again, waiting for the Germans to take her away. Her sister Charlotte had already evacuated to the United Kingdom. It was her turn now. She had never visited another country before.
She got on the 4 day long train to Vlissingen, in the Netherlands. Those days flew by like an aeroplane. When she arrived, she waited 1 day and the ship had arrived. She was an old British Navy ferry.
As around 150 children got on, the ship left for Harwich in England. She met a few friends there, even though she knew she would never see them again.
When she arrived, she boarded the ‘Great Eastern Railway’ train and arrived in a city she heard so much about, London. The climate was very cold outside the train.