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When we arrived they said there would be no funds for further study

   The first place we came to was a small country cottage at the seaside in North Wales. When I arrived, the other boys already had an advantage. Jewish families drove the boys around at weekends and took care of them. When I arrived, there were no families left. It was all about making contacts, finding a way of bringing out my family from Cologne as domestic workers. I tried, but it was too late. Then we came to the hostel in Liverpool. There were between 25 and 30 boys. The Yavneh was a high school, a grammar school, with a particular set of standards. We thought we would get to Liverpool and go on studying, go on to university. We had imagined becoming academics. When we arrived, they said there would be no funds for further study. We’d have to learn a trade. For most people this was a terrible disappointment.
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