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Between 1947 and 1949 the British government, desperately short of employees in the 'essential' business of agriculture, coal mining and textiles, considered the an incredible number of East Europeans living in Displaced Persons camps in Germany. Almost 100,000 were brought here as 'volunteers', and those who remained founded the East Western european communities of North England.In the early 1980s the Bradford Heritage Recording Device (a pioneer of local authority oral record) interviewed a large number of Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians and Yugoslavs about their often difficult early days in Britain. The interviews they offered form the foundation for this programme.
