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The Great Depression: One Man's Story
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:09:13
Publish Date: 2015-10-29 07:54:00
Description: 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)
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