They came on Kristallnacht. They took my father and my grandfather away. And they- my mother hid my brother in the attic, because he was fifteen. And… They came and searched the house, but they didn’t find him. And we were- my younger brother and I were too young to- to be taken away. But they would have taken my brother had they found him- I think. …So he came to England with me.
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