Interview with Renee Grad, nee Weinberg, who was born in the East End of London in 1913 and worked for a number of years in displaced persons camps in Germany following World War II. She describes her family background including her grandmother who migrated from Poland at the age of 17; memories of growing up in the East End including school attendance, the family household, her siblings and her brother's death in 1926, her father's role as treasurer of Stepney synagogue, suffering from rheumatic fever at the age of 13, her father's work as a dentist, celebration of Jewish festivals; her working life from the age of 17 doing office work for a number of firms; her employment in the Civil Defence Workers Health Department Red Cross from 1941 to 1945; her voluntary work for the Jewish Relief Unit at the end of the war including her assignment to work in Backnang camp near Stuttgart (part of the American occupied zone) including her relationship with the camp inmates, the camp facilities, her contact with members of the Haganah who would come through the camp and her role in falsifying documents to help inmates emigrate to Palestine; from 1947 her work with the American Joint Distribution Committee, working as an emigration officer for displaced persons in Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg; her work in Bergen Belsen in the early 1950s arranging the clearing of the camp through emigration.