The wave of emotion hit me and for a moment I held back. Then I let the tears fall. \u201cPappa\u2019s shoes\u201d, I whispered.<\/p>\n
The shoes in question were those of Sven S\u00f8mme a Norwegian agent. They were the shoes that he was wearing when the German commandant said \u201cYou\u2019ll be shot for this, you know that don\u2019t you\u201d and was still wearing when he walked past the armed German guards with a friendly wave in June 1944 at the start of an epic escape through the snow and mountains of Norway.<\/p>\n
This escape was the theme of our speaker this month, Ellie Targett, daughter of Sven, and enigmatically entitled \u201cAnother Man\u2019s Shoes\u201d. She described the subversive activities of her father in Norway against the Germans during the Second World War which led to his arrest and his epic and exhausting 300 mile escape to freedom in Sweden. It was during this escape that he was offered a pair of rugged mountain boots by a patriotic family to replace the unsuitable town shoes he had escaped in.<\/p>\n
The twist to the story was that Ellie and her sister retraced the steps of their father\u2019s escape in 2004 and had an emotional reunion with the family who had kept these shoes for 70 years and presented them to her.<\/p>\n
Our meeting on Tuesday 4th<\/sup> November at 8pm sees Andrew Crabtree presenting ‘The Story of the Piano’. Visitors are most welcome at all our events \u2013 see hhfs.org.uk for details and contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The wave of emotion hit me and for a moment I held back. Then I let the tears fall. \u201cPappa\u2019s shoes\u201d, I whispered. The shoes in question were those of Sven S\u00f8mme a Norwegian agent. They were the shoes that he was wearing when the German commandant said \u201cYou\u2019ll be shot for this, you know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}