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Interview Summary
Interview with Julius Fletcher who was born in 1921 in Frankfurt and came to Britain on the Kindertransport in 1938. He describes his family background including his father's occupation as a jewellery shop owner and his relatives in other German towns; the Jewish community in Frankfurt and the synagogue he attended; his attendance at school and at a Jewish technical college, where he trained as a tool maker; the rise of Nazism and his memories of Kristallnacht; his journey on the Kindertransport from Frankfurt via Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hook of Holland and Harwich to Liverpool Street; their arrival and intial accommodation; staying with a non-Jewish family; his work as an engineer, including during World War II and living in Ealing; his contact with his family during World War II and their fate; the history of the Jewish community in Frankfurt and Germany and his family history from the 1600s; his return to Germany after the war.

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