Evelyn Lipmann (1924-2024) (Portrait by Emma Cattell) My mother, who died on Sunday 21st July 2024 aged 100 - just like the rest of the family – was in the metals business. But in her case, it was as forced labour at the Polte munitions factory at Salzwedel in Northern Germany where her job was filling brass shells with lead for the German artillery. When allied bombers flew overhead, the Germans asked her and other prisoners to sit on the ammunition dumps as it would make a
