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CzechRepublic - Slovakia - Ukraine

Jun. 06, 1955 - Ex-A.T.S. Girl held in Slave labour camp. She defied torture.: A German Jaromer Chudy was released from a Czech jail recently and gave cut the story of ex-A.T.S. girl Phyllis Clarke who comes from the little Suffolk Village of Thurston, . Bury St. Edmunds. Jeromer wrote to Phyklis's sister at Thurston and told her that Phyllis was arrested with her husband Czech Jarosla Sipera when they tried to flee to the West from Czechoslavakia and she was sentenced to 12 months in jail he to 12 years. Her children Martin (12); Clarence (11) and Jennifer (10) were taken away from her and she was tortured and forced to divorce her husband. When she was released she was sent to an underground mine and was then put on building work for 16 hours a day. The case is to be investigated by the British Foreign Office. Photo shows Mrs. Phyllis Sispera with one of her children. The children were taken away from her and she was forced to divorce her

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