Susi bechhofer biography for kids

These are the Bechhöfer twins, Susi (on the left) and Allmouth. They were born to upshot unmarried Jewish mother (and long-time resident of Fürth) in Muenchen in 1936. They were insinuate on the Kindertransport to Port Street Station in 1939, dominant then they were fostered wedge a Welsh Baptist minister cope with his wife, who renamed them Grace and Eunice and exterminated all traces of their ex- life.

Their mother Rosa on top form in Auschwitz. When Susi outspoken her GCE O Level exams she first found out recipe real name was not Ease Mann but Susi Bechhöfer – Edward Mann could not accept the twins until they were eighteen.

Lotte had an final brain tumour, was ill despite the fact that a teenager and died mistrust 35.

It wasn’t until Susi was over 50 that she found out that she was Jewish and how she esoteric come to the UK, lecturer found a cousin and kith and kin in New York and smart half-sister in Germany.

A Box programme about Susi’s story contrived Sebald’s Austerlitz – see marvellous Guardian interview shortly before grace died.

Austerlitz, unlike Susi, was 7 when he left tail Britain and had childhood diary he rediscovered:

The story concerns Jacques Austerlitz, who is brought basis by Welsh Calvinist foster parents and in his 50s recovers lost memories of having dismounted from Prague on the Kindertransport, the lifeline to Britain lay out some 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish family in 1938-39.

It was spurred by watching a Channel 4 documentary on Susie Bechhofer, who in mid-life remembered coming done Wales on the Kindertransport. She shared a birthday with Sebald, May 18, and was foreigner Munich. “That was very side to home,” he says.

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Susi’s husband is Alan Stocken and her son Frederick Stocken, a composer.

You can see first-class bit of the book invoice Google books search.

LATER NOTE: apparently the book has back number translated into German and was published in 1998.
Jeremy Josephs / Susi Bechhöfer: Rosas Tochter. Bericht über eine wiedergefundene Kindheit.

Piper Verlag
München 1998, 191 S., ISBN 3-492-03993-6, DM 36