“In the summer, my parents always took us on holiday to a very nice area well away from the city called Puchberg am Schneeberg. It was a lovely place. I remember my mother’s favourite flower growing there, the wild cyclamen.”
“Then the day came when everything changed on 12 March 1938. That day was the Anschluss when Germany occupied Austria. German aeroplanes flew in large numbers over Vienna non-stop…A few days later, authorities were fixing Nazi swastika flags on every single house. The flags were being fixed from the roof down to the ground.”
“My parents always wanted Judaism in their lives, and I always wanted Judaism as part of my foundation. I am grateful for the harmony which existed between living in my Jewish home and the Quaker boarding school, nine months per annum. Today I still believe there is total harmony for me between these two religions.”