"This is my talk about my life as a child in war time Germany & as I’m talking about it this is April 13, 2020 & it’s approximately 75 years ago since the end of WW2. I lived in a part of Germany which was quite going up north towards the Danish border."

"This is a picture of my parents marrying in Lauenburg just before the war, and I should have the date and here’s my mother and father with all the family in Lauenburg."

"And in order to start their life because they didn’t have enough capital to start their own business they were steward and stewardess of the then famous Hamburg Polo Club"

"The polo club was quite distinguished in those days, frequented by many many rich people in Hamburg, the merchants, and the very rich people were mainly Jewish families and they did well with dealing and money and of course we all knew that the Jews had to flee from the Nazis"

"And here’s my father on the very far right standing there looking towards this way and at the front is a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm II son and affluent people and you can see the style of it all and they were the people who could afford polo horses and play polo"

"The Hussar Barracks in Hamburg... We lived in the barracks, we had an apartment, but the kitchen was the canteen kitchen & my mother was in charge of doing lots of soup and that for soldiers and it was full of soldiers upstairs and I have memories...

... of soldiers boots going downstairs and making a lot of noise when I was in my little bed" "I can remember going past almost like a reception office and above it’s door was this huge eagle, German eagle with a swastika underneath and I used to walk past a military guard box...

... little military boxes they were black, red, white striped boxes and I have a vision of that and everybody was friendly and said hello". "My mother behind the counter of the canteen because my parents were then in those barracks, my parents were then Steward and Stewardess"

"My father, he had to go and he was in the infantry because through polo, the polo club, I’m sure they thought he might have some connection with horses although he never did, but he was first in. 39/40 he was in Holland at the time, so we had no contact with Papa"

"In Christmas in 1940 my father was killed very early on in the war and he and we was informed about his death after Christmas although he had died on the 22 December of that year and he’s supposed to have been accidentally shot during gun cleaning".

"Micky took me to visit the graveyard and it was all very lonely and isolated and I didn’t even have flowers. In Lommel, it was a Sunday, it was boiling hot. But one gentleman in his restaurant where we had a cold drink, he had a plant on his windowsill &he said, here take this"