The Great Depression: Harry Leslie Smith Remembers
Witness History: Witness Archive 2015
English - October 29, 2015 12:54 - 9 minutes - 4.22 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In October 1929, Wall Street crashed and the greatest depression the world had ever seen began. Harry Leslie Smith tells Witness his story of growing up in extreme poverty in the north of England, and how his sister died of TB in a workhouse infirmary, too poor for proper medical care.
Photo: unemployed men queue for work at a dockyard during the Great Depression (Credit:Fox Photos/Getty Images)