Name Susan Soyinka | Role Writer | |
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Books From East End to Land's End | ||
Susan Soyinka (born 27 October 1945) is a social historian, writer, researcher, and educational psychologist of British and Austrian Jewish descent. She is the author of "From East End to Land's End", a historical account of the World War II evacuation of the Jews' Free School in the East End of London to Mousehole, a remote fishing village on the tip of Cornwall.
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Background
Susan was born in England but spent ten years of her early career in Ghana and Nigeria working as a teacher and lecturer. After researching her Jewish roots, she worked for nine years in the Jewish Community in London.
She is the sister-in-law of Nobel Prize-winning writer, poet and playwright Wole Soyinka. She now lives in Nottinghamshire and is married with three grown-up children.
Reenactment of "From East End to Land's End"
2010 was "the 70th anniversary of the evacuation, and on 13 June, exactly 70 years to the day when they first came to Cornwall, nine former JFS evacuees and their families travelled to Mousehole by train, just as they had all those years ago."
Susan Soyinka accompanied evacuees who were sent from London's East End to Mousehole in Cornwall on their return 70 years after first arriving.