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In 1938, because of the political situation in Germany at the time, I was evacuated to England with the ‘Kinder Transport’ along with many other Children.
Please see Article ID: 3288873 (www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A3288873)

In 1993, a friend from Leeds contacted me and mentioned that he saw an advert in the Jewish Chronicle, asking for any information leading to the whereabouts of myself. I was somewhat puzzled at the time, so I obtained the back edition of the newspaper and saw a notice asking for details of the whereabouts of Alwin Muntz.

In response, I contacted Willy Birkemeyer a fellow pupil of my time in a Primary School, Germany 1934. He was most surprised to hear from me, to say the least, that after his long search as far away as the Yad-Vashem (Holocaust Archives) in Jerusalem and was eventually successful in tracing me.

After our first conversation by ‘phone, Willy sent me copies of the German Newspapers giving details of his long search.

The translation of the caption in the German Newspaper that Willy sent, reads approximately: ‘The search for the Jewish fellow pupil after 60 years’.

In a copy of an article in a later edition of the same newspaper giving details of Willy’s search and how he found out that I was living in England. The caption reads ‘Jewish friend has survived the Nazi Terror’.

Willy has kept in contact with me over the years.

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