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Originally Posted by Livia
Whereas...my grandmother who survived the deathcamps, just, found nothing but acceptance in the UK and became a very proud Brit.
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I'm glad she had a better experience because antisemitism was very virulent in Britain at that time. There were anti-Jewish riots in 1947 in a number of British cities.
Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary of Clement Attlee was regularly reported in papers like the Daily Mail for his vitriol against the Jews. He even started a conspiracy, that in some circles, lives to this day.