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Ena Burnett, 94, is an expatriate from Scotland and when she was 18, she joined the British army.

On the national lockdown, she said: “In our backyard we had these corrugated iron shelters which we hunkered down in during air raids and you were there and everyone else was somewhere else. Holocaust survivor Miriam Lichterman, 97, has also endured hardship. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, and survived a Nazi death camp and starvation.

Freddie survived the Spanish flu of 1918 as well as World War II, and Jeanette said they remain in good spirits.Anti-apartheid activist and cancer survivor Denis Goldberg, 82, said he doesn’t like to live in fear or feed into those of others: “We do the best we can and we somehow get through periods of fear and uncertainty... like war, like apartheid.

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