Miss Williams, whose parents fled to Britain from Egypt to escape the Nazis,If her family did come from Egypt during the war, and I am sure they did, then what were they running away from? The journey must have been fraught with danger, and I cannot believe that they were given passge on a troop ship through the death alley that was the Medditereanean.
I mean nothing by this, I am just perplexed as to how such a trip could be made.
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Round the Cape of Good Hope, presumably - in the opposite direction to how Monty's troops and tanks got to Egypt.
Yup round the Cape like the Laconia
http://www.jewsofegyptfoundation.com/index.php/Jewish-Presence-in-Egypt.html
Interesting overview of the Jewish population in Egypt. It suggests that a fair number of the local Jewry were very worried about the German advance until 1942, but the linkage between local islam, and the Muslim botherhood and Nazis compounded the issue.
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