Recently we have begun to learn much more about my own family’s history.
My father’s parents were Jewish who were both born in Germany. In 1933 my grandfather was a newly qualified lawyer when he was told that as a Jew he would now not be allowed to practice in Berlin.
Around 1940, despite now having a family my grandfather was taken along with many other German men to the interment camp on the Isle of Man. He was released in 1941/42 (we aren’t sure) and promptly joined the British Army.
To this day we still are not entirely sure what he did in the war as some of his records are still redacted. He told various relatives snippets of stories that don't quite add up.
However, we recently discovered that our grandmothers cousin was taken to the Sachsenhausen prison camp, but was allowed to leave on the grounds they leave Germany right away and they to settled in the UK.
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My father’s parents were Jewish who were both born in Germany. In 1933 my grandfather was a newly qualified lawyer when he was told that as a Jew he would now not be allowed to practice in Berlin.
After a spell in other European countries, they arrived in the UK in Feb 1934.
However, we recently discovered that our grandmothers cousin was taken to the Sachsenhausen prison camp, but was allowed to leave on the grounds they leave Germany right away and they to settled in the UK.
Like many others of that generation, my grandparents never really spoke about that time, and over time the extended family drifted apart.