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Biography

   Lore Michel was born on 29th January 1924 in Cologne. She lived at 38 Salierring with her parents Friedrich and Anna (Aennie) and her brother Walter.

   Her parents were waiting in Holland for a ship to America when the German army invaded the Netherlands. They were deported via Westerbork to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Before the allies reached Bergen-Belsen, about 7,000 Jewish camp inmates were forced by the SS into three death trains going towards Theresienstadt. Lore’s mother Aenni died from typhus shortly after being freed from the third train in Tröbitz (Brandenburg). Her father died in New York in 1950 from the after-effects of his imprisonment.

   Lore Michel went to the Lützowstraße Jewish ‘Volksschule’ in Cologne and subsequently to the Yavneh Grammar School until January 1939. On 20th June 1939 she was rescued by a Kindertransport to England. After the intervention of her brother Walter, who had already reached England in 1938, she was found a new foster home in Cambridge around Christmas in 1939, where she was able to continue to go to school. After leaving school, Lore Michel trained as a nurse. With her English husband, she had a son and a daughter. Today (2016) Lore Robinson lives in London. Her granddaughter Catherine learnt German while she was studying in order to be able to speak with her grandmother in her mother tongue.
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