Because of anti-Semitism, I could not continue my education past the age of 16 in Germany. My mother found a German Jewish woman, a Mrs. Essinger, who had previously started a boarding school, Bunce Court School in Kent, England for German Jewish refugee children and others. In 1936, I left Germany for England to go to the school.
After Kristallnacht, my parents arranged for my sister Feodora, to leave on the Kindertransport to England. I quit my education and got a job working in the garden at Bunce Court so that I could pay for my sister to come over.
Our parents were able to come to the United States in April 1939 before the war started. They were able to arrange for my sister and I to leave England and join them in the US in November 1939.