Interview with Frances Maybaum, born 1904 in Breslau (now Wroclaw), who talks about her life in Germany and then in England as a refugee. She speaks of her mother’s and father’s roots, their jobs and where the family lived; moving to Berlin upon her father’s return from Dutch East India, then moving again to the suburbs during WW1. She speaks of her childhood, of school and of life during the war. She talks about first meeting her husband, who became a Rabbi, when she was 16 at a dance organized by Zionists; getting married in 1926. She describes life for herself and her family during the depression in the early 1920s in Germany, and hard times again later during WW2. She talks about how her husband was betrayed and taken to a concentration camp in Columbia in 1935, but survived. She talks about the impact of Hitler coming to power; of Kristallnacht and her husband’s synagogue being burnt; of fleeing Germany in March 1939 with her children and arriving in Croydon; of her mother dying at Auschwitz. She goes on to talk about her life in England as a refugee.