M A N C H E S T E R

But he established himself, he got compensation, restitution, because he was very good at this thing.

   He died when he was 79. My mother unfortunately died in 1944. But he remarried, and we just got on with things. I got a job when I was 14, and I stayed with the same firm all my working life till I retired with 65. Which is unusual, isn't it?

   My wife Ruth was born in Hamburg, but when she was two, she went to Holland. And she was a hidden child during the war. She lived there until we got married – she's my second wife, we married in 1962.

    So, as I said, I consider myself very, very lucky. I see all my friends and the stories they've got to tell. Even those who have not been in a camp, even those who – you know, people of my age, and the difficulties they had when they were still in Germany, when they came over here – yeah, I was lucky.
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