1 cassette tape relating to Walter's life story. Walter's original surname was Goetz. Walter grew up in Berlin as a Danish National citizen living in Germany. He went to school in Germany till he was 18 and the Nazi law barred him from attending the school because he was Jewish. So Walter returned to Copenhagen in 1938, before Kristallnacht, to finish his schooling. After Kristallnacht the rest of his family follow him to Denmark. Another reason for their departure was the arrest of his father by the Gestapo. Walter began living and working in the Hellerup Hotel on the outskirts of Copenhagen from the outbreak of the war in 1939 till October 1st 1943, the night that the German Nazi authorities commenced their attempt to deport the approx 7,000 Jews of Denmark. Nazi soldiers came to Walter's hotel. Walter (aged 23) intentionally lied to them telling them that there were no Jews in the hotel. All that night he could hear lorries pulling into the square outisde his hotel, which was apparently used as a collection point. A woman, Signe Hansen, offered hima space in her apartment for the night. He inquired after his grandmother and friend, Stephi Rydeberg who stayed in the hotel that night. His grandmother was safe but Stephi was taken. He met with his parents and they received instructions from their neighbour who was connected with the resistance. Walter's mother, slightly disabled, received different instructions. Walter and his father walked to a specific fishing boat in the harbour where they hid with 2 others for 4 hours. At around 4am on 4th October 1943 they set said for Sweden. Because his father had asthma, they could not sleep on the hay provided for them in the schoolhouse and would up sleeping in a sail. Each found work, Walter as a cashier in a restaurant in Boros and his father in a university in Stockholm. After the war Walter worked for the British Occupation Zone in Hamburg for 2 years before going to visit his aunt in London. He still has not left as that's when he met his wife Eva. She was a refugee from Germany who came to London with her parents after Kristallnacht in 1938.