BG: Daisy and Bernhard Grunberg on their wedding day
BG: Bernhard and his sister
BG: Primary school attended by Bernhard
BG: The Grunberg family home in Lingen
BG: Bernhard's mother
BG: Memorial stone to Bendix and Marianne (née Valk) Grunberg
BG: Wrought iron gates made by Bernhard Grunberg in the 1990s for the garden containing the memorial to his parents
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Bernard Grunberg
Born: 1923
Place of Birth: Lingen
Arrived in Britain: 14/12/1938
Interview Number: 57 (N)
Experiences: Kindertransport
Interview Summary
Date of interview: 18/04/2004
Bernhard Grunberg was born in Lingen, Germany (near the Dutch border). His father was a cattle dealer, and Bernhard was raised in an orthodox Jewish family.
Bernhard managed to escape Nazi persecution by emigrating to England on the Kindertransport. He married in England in 1947, and worked as an agricultural engineer, farm labourer and handyman.
As an adult he kept his background from various employers. More recently visits his home town of Lingen, and working at Beth Shalom is very important to him.
Place of Birth
I think, don’t dwell on the past and think about it as a bad thing. Think about your life - if it has been decent - and say to yourself, ‘Look, I’m still alive, surely that’s worth more than anything else.’
Still alive, value in that