I thought I would go to what is now Belsize Square [Synagogue], called the New Liberal at the time. To my utter amazement there was an awful lot of German in the service. The second day and that was all of German – that I couldn’t stand. Already on the boat I had decided to myself, ‘I am not speaking any German anymore.’
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