Isidore Wolf: "That's a picture I painted when I was a member of the Hampstead Garden Institute back in the '1990s."
Isidore Wolf: July 2019
Isidore Wolf: 2019 holding a photo of himself as a teenager in NYC with his parents
Isidore Wolf: With wife Rosette
Isidore Wolf: At the age of 16 or 17
Isidore Wolf: "That's a picture I painted when I was a member of the Hampstead Garden Institute back in the '1990s."
Isidore Wolf: With his wife
Isidore Wolf: "That's a picture I painted when I was a member of the Hampstead Garden Institute back in the '1990s."
Isidore Wolf: July 2019
Isidore Wolf: "That's a picture I painted when I was a member of the Hampstead Garden Institute back in the '1990s."
Isidore Wolf
Isidore (Yitzhak) Wolf was born in 1928 in Antwerp into an Orthodox family
Born: 1928
Place of Birth: Antwerp
Arrived in Britain: 25/04/1940
Interview Number: RV244
Experiences: Emigration to US
Interview Summary
Isidore (Yitzhak) Wolf was born in 1928 in Antwerp into an Orthodox family. His father was a diamond dealer. The family had visas for the US, arrived there in April 1939 and settled in Manhattan. Isidore attended Talmudic Academy of Yeshiva University, City College, and Columbia University School of Architecture. He was drafted in 1952 and acted as interpreter for the American sector in Germany until 1954. He married Rosette Vecht from Antwerp in 1961, the couple settled in the UK and raised one son.
Place of Birth
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