Beatrice Musgrave: "On the front row
Beatrice Musgrave: Grandfather Jacques Sonneborn
Beatrice Musgrave: Beatrice's grandparents
Beatrice Musgrave: "Putney House School
Beatrice Musgrave: "My wedding to Roger Musgrave on the 21st of November 1953. From left
Beatrice Musgrave: Parents on the balcony of grandfather's house
Beatrice Musgrave: Bradford Grammar School
Beatrice Musgrave: An oil refinery that belonged to Beatrice's grandfather, Jacque Sonneborn, Elbe.
Beatrice Musgrave: On the balcony of the flat in Hamburg
Beatrice Musgrave: "My grandmother Jenny Falkenstein
Beatrice Musgrave: "This is in 1959 just before we left our flat in Richmond to move to Somerset Road. On the left is Tessa, 3 and Oliver 1. "
Beatrice Musgrave: "Visit to my great grandfather's home in Breitenbach
Beatrice Musgrave: Bradford Grammar School
Beatrice Musgrave: 1936 friend
Beatrice Musgrave: Father
Beatrice Musgrave: Beatrice's mother Grete with her siblings Edgar and Louis
Beatrice Musgrave: "Punting on the Cherwell in Oxford in 1947 in my third year. "
Beatrice Musgrave: Trip to Eastbourne: From the left BM
Beatrice Musgrave: Boarding school Belmont
Beatrice Musgrave: BM 2004
Beatrice Musgrave
Beatrice Musgrave grew up in Hamburg
Born: 1924
Place of Birth: Hamburg
Arrived in Britain: 21/09/2037
Interview Number: 86 (S)
Experiences: Early Pre War Emigration to Britain
Interview Summary
Beatrice Musgrave grew up in Hamburg. Her father had grown up in Paris but maintained his German citizenship. He was a businessman and lived in Bradford before World War One, and then moved to Hamburg.
Beatrice had one sister. She went to a local school in Hamburg, and recalls starting to experience antisemitism in 1936, following which she was sent in to a boarding school in Switzerland called ‘Belmont’. She returned to Hamburg in 1937 and three weeks later the family emigrated to the UK. They settled in Putney, where Beatrice went to Putney Girls’ School. In 1940 she moved with her family to Bradford where her father set up a business together with his cousins.
After finishing school, Beatrice received a scholarship to read English at Oxford University. She then worked for two refugee publishers, Picture Post and Thames and Hudson. She married in 1953 and had two children. Later she trained as a group psychotherapist.
Place of Birth
Be open to whatever comes in to you, by way of thoughts, inspirations, meetings, anything new, because you never know what will come of it. In my case so much has developed from being ever more open. I feel I'm having a very good life and the struggle and strife is part of it.
I felt myself almost phased out of the German school, because I felt the balance was changing so very much against the remnant of the Jewish children and the others. I didn't want to return, things had come to an end, the atmosphere had become alien. I was looking forward to the next experience.
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