Almost 77 years ago, I arrived in Leicester as a refugee, writes Lisa Hurd. I was five years old and with my parents I had fled Vienna to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. We had to leave my grandparents and many other family members behind, to be murdered in concentration camps.At that time, thousands of refugees were flooding into England, including 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Many children came to England, without their parents,...
