Kids

Daily sessions at which an actor in the role of a WWI soldier talks about life in the trenches and tells the story of the Christmas truce of 1914. The unofficial pause in hostilities between German and British troops on the Western Front began when German soldiers stationed near Ypres began decorating fir tree branches with candles. They sang German carols and were answered with English ones. The two sides shouted Christmas greetings to each other and met in no-man's land to exchange cigarettes and gifts. They had time to gather the dead and give them proper burials. The truce spread to other areas and there are stories of football matches between the two sides. In subsequent years of the war British commanders scheduled artillery bombardments on Christmas Eve to ensure that no repeat truce would take place. Age 7-11.