She lost her home, her father lost his job and she had to leave school. Her family didn’t know anyone abroad, but Thea had been writing to a pen-friend in Hastings, Hannah, to improve her English. She decided to write to Hannah about her plight.
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Hannah and her family were horrified and offered to take her in. They saved her life. In March 1939, aged 15, my grandmother travelled from Vienna to Hastings on the Kindertransport and started her new life with the Freemans. Here is the story in my grandmother's words.pic.twitter.com/A1i66ryLlg
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Ahead of my grandmother's journey, her parents wrote this extraordinary letter to the Freeman family thanking them for "putting the fate of our dear child in your good hands". The letter is very moving.pic.twitter.com/mgkIF2Z1oN
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When my grandmother said goodbye to her parents on the platform of Vienna's Westbahnhof station, it was the last time she would see them again. Despite support from her teachers, it wasn't possible to save her parents. Their letters to each other are preserved in
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Fanny and her husband Siegfried were later deported to Poland, we believe to Theresienstadt or Auschwitz In April 1942 my great-grandfather Robert was deported to Izbica, Poland in transport no. 17. Of all the 1,000 Jews in that transport not a single person survived the Shoahpic.twitter.com/qNTAeLEwKC
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The decision to save my grandmother represents an enormous act of generosity by the Freeman family, to whom my family are forever indebted. We remain in touch. Hannah and Thea remained close friends for the rest of their lives.pic.twitter.com/ivOw9x6sbe
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Thea later married my grandfather, Sam, who was also a Holocaust survivor. Both of them were the sole surviving members of their families. It was my grandparents' stories about fleeing persecution that first instilled in me the importance of standing up to hatred and injustice.
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