Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know anything about the female British typists who went to Germany in 1945 to type up the peace treaty? My grandmother was one of them!
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Hier Leichengeruch, dort Partys: Vor 75 Jahren reiste die Stenotypistin Joy Milward, 19, mit dem britischen Premier nach Potsdam. Ihr Tagebuch zeigt, was die Konferenzteilnehmer abseits des Politpokers erwartete.
@helenpugh It doesn't help that Banksy's wife is called Joy Millward (with 2 l, the Joy we're talking about has only 1 l in her surname).
Maybe the palace where they had the exhibition about her can help if you contact them? https://www.potsdam.de/en/content/cecilienhof-palace
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Also, The National Archives in Kew has government records.
Good luck with the search.
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Following links may be useful
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1669/1/1669.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Hibbert
https://www.alamy.com/ats-in-berlin-a-group-of-british-ats-girls-serving-at-the-big-three-conference-sight-seeing-in-berlin-behind-them-can-be-seen-one-of-the-many-devastated-building-in-the-german-capital-a-number-of-ats-girls-took-a-few-hours-off-from-their-duties-at-the-potsdam-big-three-conference-to-see-the-sights-of-berlin-august-6-1945-image463560052.html
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