The guide took us to his home & said, “We can’t cross tonight because they caught some people crossing the border. So, we’ll have to wait for another day.’ The next day very early in the morning he took us [Betty + 2 others] to the border, across two barbed-wire fences. The border was in Annemasse, on the border with Switzerland. And he said, ‘There’s a third one you have to cross.’

We went straight across & we heard some German. It was the French-Swiss border, so we knew that’s no good. So we quickly came back & decided to take the left or the other way round. Anyway, we got this, we managed to get over the third barbed wire. We were in Switzerland where we immediately got a welcome from the Swiss border guards. They said, ‘You’re very, very lucky because you almost ran into-‘ They saw it all. ‘You almost ran into the arms of the Germans.’