Sarah Kanowski

I wasn't allowed to go once to the zoo because my parents were... Yeah, well, and I think zoos then weren't the zoos of now.

I mean, they were very much animals in small cages.

So, yes, we always had lots of dogs, cats, lambs, turkeys, chickens...

Loads, loads.

And I can remember I had a raven once that had a broken, which is quite funny because my name is Walraven, a tame raven.

My earliest memories are of a black German shepherd called Peter.

Peter.

That was, you know, my mate.

Mum was amazing.

I mean, in hindsight, you don't know that when you grow up.

But she was also good at languages and she got a job with the Ortskommandant as a secretary.

So the Germans occupied the town and then just put a layer of authority on top and the Ortskommandant was the highest German in town.

Her father worked for the underground as...

Did she?

And everything she typed for him, she took a carbon copy and smuggled it out when she left in her handbag and then gave it to her father who passed it on down the line.

That's so risky.

It was very risky, very risky.

That wasn't the riskiest thing she did.

She was also involved...

in taking Allied soldiers along the line.