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Now when came towards the end of the occupation when everybody was literally starving and the, we finally got the Red Cross boat in with the food parcels, Oh we were so thrilled, so thrilled. And I remember going to Cobo Post Office where we had to collect them from. And one day I had, it was in a white cardboard, and I noticed it was from New Zealand and we had that one home, and we were so delighted when we opened it, I think I was more delighted because when I opened this particular tin there was chocolate, something we hadn’t seen and I hadn’t known all the occupation, in fact I don’t think I’d ever had any. I tasted it, and it was so good. And there were various items in the parcel, there was coffee I remember, but I can’t remember a lot of things now but I remember the chocolate. From that time on I went down to the Post Office every time when it was time for our parcels and I always made sure I asked for a New Zealand parcel because I wanted the chocolate. Oh it was really thrilling, I looked forward to that so much.
ANN QUERIPEL

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