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Interview Summary
Interview with Martha Levy who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1922 and came to the UK on the Kindertransport in 1939. She describes her parental background; her childhood including attendance at Jewish school, her membership of the Jewish youth group Agudas Israel and her synagogue; her arrest before Kristallnacht as a Polish passport holder and her release shortly after; her memories of Kristallnacht and rising antisemitism; her first job working in a shop; witnessing the burning of her syangogue; her memories of the Kindertransport, including preparing for the journey, the train journey via Germany and Holland and boat to Harwich, then onto Liverpool Street; her foster family in the East End and their evacuation to Chelmsford during the war; her return to the East End to work; the hostel she stayed in in Ladbroke Grove; her memories of the Blitz; the fate of her step mother; her adaptation to English life and her contact with the English Jewish community.

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