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Hanna Singer

Hanna was born in Erfurt, Germany in May 1935. She has some memory of Kristallnacht when her father was sent to Buchenwald. After his release the family managed to procure visas for England and arrived here in March 1939. Hanna’s father escaped internment and instead got a job as a door-to-door salesman – in Germany he had been a lawyer. Eventually life improved for her family and Hanna went to study at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, and won a travel award from the RSA which took her to America, where she had great adventures before returning to the UK to continue life as a textile designer. (Unaided Emigration)

Hanna Singer

My father was arrested on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938. I was three years old. I can see myself standing at the end of my cot and the bedroom door being open onto the hall.

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Hanna with her mother, April 1936

With her dog, Paul

Hanna with Renate when she was four years old

Oma Selma and Oma Else, 1934

Hanna outside their old apartment building in Erfurt. They lived on the first floor, centre apartment.

Plaque outside the apartment building in Erfurt

L-R Tante Shüfftan, mother, Hanna, Oma Else in 1937

Hanna's father, c. 1929

Inspecting Tanti Shüfftan's basket of goodies, June

Citation for father's WW1 Iron cross

Father's registration paper for Buchenwald

Erfurt - plaque outside school with gym hall

Erfurt - plaque dedicated to Tanti Shüfftan

Erfurt - school with gym hall

Hanna's passport for leaving Germany (front)

Hanna's passport for leaving Germany (back)

Mother's passport for leaving Germany - 'valid also for daughter Hanna'

Memorial site of the former Jewish cemetery in Erfurt

Hanna's parents circa 1956

Harry

Wedding day

Hanna in her Ganton Street studio, 1959

Mince Matters, cookery book written by Elaine Hallgarten and illustrated by Hanna

Hanna

Hanna with her mother, April 1936

With her dog, Paul

Hanna with Renate when she was four years old

Oma Selma and Oma Else, 1934

Hanna outside their old apartment building in Erfurt. They lived on the first floor, centre apartment.

Plaque outside the apartment building in Erfurt

L-R Tante Shüfftan, mother, Hanna, Oma Else in 1937

Hanna's father, c. 1929

Inspecting Tanti Shüfftan's basket of goodies, June

Citation for father's WW1 Iron cross

Father's registration paper for Buchenwald

Erfurt - plaque outside school with gym hall

Erfurt - plaque dedicated to Tanti Shüfftan

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