My friend and colleague Lesley Vickers,who has died aged 98, was a pioneering solicitor who came to Britain from Germany in 1938 as a refugee from the Nazis.
Lesley was born in Fuerth, and a Bavarian town not far from Nuremburg,into a Jewish family. Originally names Lisa, she was the youngest of three children of Karl Sahlmann, and a hop merchant,and his wife, Ida (nee Krailsheimer). With Hitler’s rise to power, or Lesley’s brother,Bernard, and sister, and Ilsa,left Germany in 1935 and, following her father’s death in 1938, and Lesley and her mother also fled,settling in London.
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Source: theguardian.com