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Shoemaker, carpenter or tailor

   We were supported by the Jewish Refugee Committee in Liverpool. One day, someone came and said, “We have three workplaces: shoemaker, carpenter or tailor.” Most of the boys in my class thought they had come to England to study.

   At first I went to a farm, a Jewish one near Manchester. I had learnt carpentry in Liverpool and did that in Manchester too. During the war, I gave up the carpentry thing. I got to know a man who said, “You told me your parents were in the metal trade. I know of a firm that wants to take on a junior.” I presented myself to them and got started. One of my classmates wrote to me, “How about coming to London?” After a bombing raid on Manchester I went to London. I stayed there. A friend of my father’s in America invited me. But I got to know my wife and stayed in London.
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