We were at my grandmother’s flat. After coffee-time my father kept pacing up & down. I was sitting on the settee. As he passed me he bent down & whispered ‘We are going to England’. That was the first intimation I had that we were going to leave. We were fortunate. We left in November 1937, we could take all our belongings, except valuables. Money we couldn’t take, except 10 marks. But valuables, like rings, ornaments, we could take, providing it was declared to the customs. When these big boxes were loaded outside the flat with our furniture there was a customs officer who checked every item. But we could take all our belongings, as opposed to Marianne’s parents, when they came in 1939, they couldn’t take anything, just 1 or 2 small possessions.