July 2024
Just days before I was to lead 34 pilgrims to Auschwitz, I received my old school newsletter. This included an obituary of a biology teacher, Harry Grenville, who died recently aged 92. This paragraph was news to me: “Harry had a classically English name but spoke with a distinctive accent, not immediately identifiable; or not until a colleague, a modern languages teacher, asked him: ‘Which part of Germany are you from?’ Harry never talked about his background. Born in 1926 near Stuttgart, into a middle-class Jewish family, Harry's original name was Heinz Willi Greilsamer. After Kristallnacht, when it became clear that the family would be in danger if they remained in Germany, his parents arranged for Heinz (12) and his sister Hannah (10) to move to Britain on the Kindertransport. They were never to see them again.The Very Rev Geoffrey Marshall
Sunday 28th July 2024, 11am to 12pm
Sunday 4th August 2024, 11am to 12pm
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