Like many, we have been moved by the programmes that we have seen on TV about the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

It also got us thinking about the amazing woman behind the Something To Look Forward To holiday caravan granted by the Pink Ribbon Foundation and funded by Eve Morrison (pictured).

🎀 Eve Morrison was born in Germany in 1925, her parents decided that life for Jews in Berlin was too dangerous, and they needed to flee. The outbreak of war was imminent, and they could not escape as a family, so Eve was sent alone, via Kindertransport, from Berlin to London.

🎀 Eve arrived in London in January 1939, a thirteen-year-old girl who spoke little or no English, with a small suitcase and ten Reichmarks. She was allocated to a foster family in London, and when aged fifteen, was sent out to work, learning very quickly how to provide for herself.

🎀 Later, Eve worked as a translator for the US Army at the Nuremburg trials and was a secretary to one of the Board Directors of Marks & Spencer. During her lifetime, she regularly donated to charitable causes, and her wish was that when she died, a large portion of her money should be given to charity to help others.

🎀 Eve and her husband Philip supported the Pink Ribbon Foundation with regular donations and after Eve's death, their legacy enabled the purchase of Eve's Place - a static caravan at Parkdean Manor Park, which since 2022 gives 48 families affected by breast cancer a free week long holiday by the sea every year!!

🎀 In 2025 we have been able to donate another holiday caravan (this time in Whitley Bay) to the charity Something To Look Forward To using funds from the Morrison family - Eve & Philips Place will be opening its doors very soon to families for some much needed respite ..... More updates on this to follow.

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