SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2016 ST THOMAS À BECKET CHURCH, HUNTINGTON
Susi Rice from Brilley, will tell of her turbulent early life, from when her family lived in Berlin before the war, to the present.
Susi’s Grandmother died in Auschwitz and her Grandfather died in Theresienstadt Concentration Camps. They were encouraged to go into trains by being told they were to go to an ‘Old People’s Home’.
She will talk about her family background and events in Berlin, pre-1933, when the threat of Nazism drove the family from Berlin to Teheran. With a brief return to Berlin, they then fled to Italy, followed by a harrowing journey to England.
Susi Weissrock’s brother, sisters and parents, before they left Berlin in 1933.
Susi will describe the trials faced by her Mother as an alien when war broke out in 1939 and will give a vivid description of people and events from 1939 until her Mother’s death in 1949, including a description of life in the remarkable refugee boarding school which she and her sisters attended.
After the war, Susi (centre) with her older sisters, in London
She will end her talk with “Where we are now”. With the current worldwide political situation regarding refugees, this should be a highly potent talk, from one who faced similar persecutions nearly sixty years ago.