Anne Bruh was born in Oberfeld, Germany and when the Nazis came to power in 1933, she was no longer permitted to go to a local school. She was then sent to live in Berlin with a Jewish family where she was able to attend a Technical school until the destruction of Krystallnacht, after which she returned to Oberfeld. Her parents arranged for her brother to live in a Jewish community in the Hague, but they were reunited when in 1939 the family left for Holland with visas and were put in a Rotterdam refugee camp, where Anne remembers the very poor conditions, but after arriving in England she got a job as a secretary and her father started a coat business. Anne’s parent did not lead the life they were used to and it took them a long time to get over the shock of immigration and they had difficulty learning English. She remembers never feeling part of the English Jewish community and the German Jewish refugees tended to stick together. Anne however, became naturalised in 1945, married and with her husband started a successful clothing company. Their business exported worldwide and a lot into Germany where they became well established and appreciated.