The images below are scans of the last letters exchanged between Pat Anson (Beate Einstein) and her parents Isak and Ida. You can click on each image to view an enlarged version. The English translation for each letter is included below. On 11TH December 1942 Beate writes; Beloved Parents, It has been some time since … Read more
All in all I must say I have been extremely lucky. People have been enormously friendly, even when we worked and more work and things were rationed people would invite us to share their meals in their houses when food and everything was very, very short. There was never any word of being the enemy … Read more
The food on the Isle of Man was very British which our landlady cooked – we were all dying for potato salad. Whenever we had to peel the potatoes we kind of pinched one or two potatoes and put them inside the gramophone and when our landlady went for the day to Douglas we took … Read more
I went to Bradford first to secure the job. Irene’s papers weren’t quite ready so she came 6 weeks afterwards. I still remember, I had never crossed the Channel of course. I went with the train to Holland and then with the boat over to Dover, then to London. In London some of those committee … Read more
We had the same job in the household. We were in interned (in the Isle of Man) together. After the internment we both worked in the same factory sharing the same room until Irene and I got married we both were continuously together and we really were good friends which helped tremendously to have always … Read more
I was born on the 9th December 1916 in Kreigshaber which is on the outskirts of Augsburg, (Bavaria, Germany). We lived in a very spacious villa. We lived on the first floor and Lee (Fischer ) and her parents lived on the ground floor. My parents were very loving well adjusted people and in our … Read more