Alan Turing is held in such high regard in the UK that his portrait is printed on the new £50 banknotes which came into circulation last Wednesday (25th June 2021). A small recompense for the tragic s

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My paternal grandfather, Meir Neitan Silverstone (?Zylberstein) married Clara Rogovski in Kalwarija (? Poland or Lithuania) on 15th October, 1881. Their first child, my Aunt Jessie, was born at 5 West

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Dear Hilary There is no town in Lancashire Uk with the name St Anne’s. There is the coastal resort of Lytham St Anne’s south of Blackpool to where I was evacuated at the beginning of WW2 from Manchest

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In 1938 my family, living in Manchester, UK, took in an 10 year boy whose name was Josef Fleischman. His parents ran a successful patisserie shop in Vienna but, in view of the rising antisemitism in t

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