London - John Goldsmith was too young to fight in World War II, but he remembered destroying his rations, power outages and bombs near east London. When peace returned to Europe, he remembered the party.

The church bells rang throughout the city, the bonfires were lit, and the Conga lines meandered through the Piccadilly Circus as people celebrated the victory of the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany on the streets. For a 14-year-old boy on May 8, 1945, something else was brought: ending wartime rules and restrictions.

"Well, it's a comparison. Suddenly, free! A mess. Doing all kinds of frowning things is not the right thing to do," said Goldsmith, 94.

"But now, for example, all of these beautiful Piccadilly and places like this. The bus covers the people standing on the roof just a rave - not necessarily due to drink or any of that nature. But, of course, they put down their hair,'' he added.

The victory of Europe that day was a time for a city scarred by bombing raids and rocket attacks, with an estimated 30,000 civilians killed throughout the war and not ending until a few weeks ago. However, it is also a look forward to the safe return of husbands, sons, brothers and sisters who are serving abroad and hope that their lives will soon return to normal in 1939.

Day D is about landing on the beaches in northern France to begin the liberation of Europe, but for the public, ve is a moment, for everyone who sacrifices for the common good.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspired Britain on the darkest days, and he aroused the mood of the country when he declared his victory at 3pm on May 8.

"This is your time, my dear friend." "This is not a victory for a party or any class. It is a victory for the entire British country."

This is the message Goldsmith wants people to remember before World War II. He is a retired architect and amateur artist who has long empowered his family in his childhood in the Archery community in East London. After the thrill of his wife, Margaret, he recently began sketching the scene so that others could see his life.

Goldsmith said: "Soldiers, pilots, sailors will not be able to operate without the people who support them and support them. So it is so important that the day should be...People's Day."

Although Londoners have been expecting the end of the battle in Europe for weeks, the announcement is like Cork popping out of a huge bottle of champagne in the city of six years in the shadow of war.

There is nothing deeper than the East Side, as Nazi bombers slammed the docks and warehouses along the Thames, thousands of houses, schools and businesses were reduced to rubble. When Buckingham Palace was blown up on September 13, 1940, Queen Elizabeth told a police officer that she was happy because “it made me feel like I could look at the East End in my face.”

Goldsmith's drawings capture the day when the blitz began, with Nazi bombers filling up the air and firing, turning the night sky into a volcanic red of the dock. There is also a cricket match hanging in a cricket match, a flying bomb known as the "fool" that soared overhead, and the ghostly image of the rent collector emerged from a swarm of dust, a V-2 rocket, a ballistic missile at a distance that wiped a bunch of houses.

(On March 27, 1945, the last V-2 hit London destroyed an apartment building less than two miles from his home.

Eighty years later, Goldsmith remembers the moment he heard the Nazi surrender and refused to tears.

He and his friends are playing football in tennis - football is scarce after the Six Years War - a little boy ran out of the nearby dairy and simply shouted, "It's over!"

“I have to be very careful right now because I can break up,” Goldsmith paused his collection. "But that's the point you realize: 'I don't have to worry anymore.'"

People have seen the ending, but can't believe it might be true.

In an era before television, Londoners flocked to cinemas to watch weekly news reports that documented the Allied advancing Berlin. Goldsmith, who was only eight years old when the war broke out, tracked the progress of the troops through newspapers, carefully cutting headlines and maps. By early 1945, he realized that the surrender of the Third Reich was about to come.

When the news finally came, it released a wave of joy that lasted for several days.

Goldsmith remembers climbing the steps of St. John's Church in Bethnal Green and seeing King George VI and Queen Elizabeth driving through East London to celebrate with the locals.

There are street parties and bonfires. Everyone contributes their possibilities with the food they supply.

"The lounge favorite table was brought out in the middle of the street and associated with all other personal possessions," Goldsmith recalls. "The food was magic from somewhere, and the kids radiated their own flavor on various cakes."

However, the celebrations are bittersweet because people know that ve is not the end of the war.

"Suddenly realising. There is still a situation in Japan in the Far East," Goldsmith said. "Then people surrendered.''