Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). It took some time to walk the six miles back to base late that evening, the men having either missed the last bus or more likely having spent every last penny on best beer. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. They told us before the talk that they were there because Ilan’s family had Koblenz war-time connections.

I look forward to sharing it further with other Norfolk groups, such as the Women’s Institute, History Groups etc. Joe was over seventy years old when, quite by chance, he learnt the truth about his parents' demise. Scrivens gathered her information through interviews with Günter, now known as Joe Stirling, and with those closest to him. Günter is seated, front, far left in white socks) In his adult life, Heinz felt guilty about the fate of the Sterns during the Holocaust and how his schoolfriend had to flee to England to escape Nazi atrocities. The Commanding Officer made a speech, thanking everyone for his or her valuable contribution to the victory, even if they hadn’t been involved at the front line.

It was by no means a simple matter to convince a consul who had to assess the financial, political and moral reliability of the applicant. The emigration and exodus of German Jews and those with a different political orientation had enormous consequences in the political, cultural, scientific and economic fields, but was above all a humanitarian drama. The early extracts from Joe Stirling’s interviews with his biographer Phyllida Scrivens, with which every chapter starts, convey a chilling reminder of Germany’s descent over four years from a reasonably tolerant respectable decentralised society into the intense nationalism, brutality and fascism of the Third Reich. His good friend Neil Jordon was hosting Hubert for a few days in Norfolk, and they took the opportunity to arrange a first time meeting with Joe. Andree de Jongh risked her life to smuggle men through occupied France, survived being sent to two concentration camps, and has been described by MI9 as 'the greatest of our war-time agents'.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. These were Joe’s very words as he told me his story in December 2011, our very first interview for his biography in his comfortable Norwich home. Last evening, 13th October 2020, I was delighted to share my presentation via Zoom with the good ladies of Youlgrave Women’s Institute. After we had completed our usual book signing, Ilan and his wife Anne approached our table and Ilan spoke directly to Joe. The author gathered her information through interviews with Günter, now known as Joe Stirling, and with those closest to him.

Stiftung Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Heimat und Exil: Emigration der deutschen Juden nach 1933 (Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2006).

Refusing to let the tragedy of the Holocaust embitter him and ruin the rest of his life, he brought energy and drive to community and charity projects, becoming Sheriff of Norwich, and built a successful and respected business in the city. The author gathered her information through interviews with Gunter, now known as Joe Stirling, and with those closest to him.I miss him every day and always enjoy giving “his talk” to groups around Norfolk, sharing tales of his childhood in Nazi Germany, his freedom walk through Europe and his achievements in later life, so many recorded in my biography Escaping Hitler (Pen and Sword Books 2016). Andree de Jongh risked her life to smuggle men through occupied France, survived being sent to two concentration camps, and has been described by MI-9 as 'the greatest of our war-time agents'. For this reviewer, the book was of special interest having served in Berlin in the early 1960s when the routes and locations described were still much as they were post WWII, including access into Hitler’s bunker before it was built over.

They had been together over that dreadful period, most probably both thinking of their children (Berta of her daughter escaped to England and Alfred and Ida of their son Günter (Joe) also safely in England). Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions. This work concentrates on the last few days of Hitler, his Berlin bunker, and those who remained with him during the days leading to the bitter end of the war.The Netherlands had a very strict policy on admission and provided accommodation for 2,000 children. Phyllida studied for an MA in Creative Non-Fiction with Biography from the University of East Anglia, graduating in 2014.