Feeling compassion for their plight, Attenborough’s parents, learn here Mary and Frederick, decided to take the girls in to their Leicester home, where they would live for the next seven years and become like ‘sisters’ to their three sons, David, Richard and John. Sir David Attenborough has revealed how he helped reunite the families of two Jewish refugee sisters who fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and were taken in by his parents during the Second World War. Irene and Helga Bejach, aged 13 and 12 respectively, arrived in August 1939, just 17 days before war broke out, and were among the 10,000 Jewish and half-Jewish children who fled to Britain as part of a mass humanitarian rescue effort. ‘Gabriel did really well…he hadn’t played for six months’:… Fulham dealt ruthless reminder of why their last Premier… ‘Willian for Ballon d’Or!’: Arsenal fans heap praise on new… Arsenal and Arteta off to a flyer! Gunners breeze past… How could the holiday impact Social Security funding? The president said in a press briefing on Aug. 12 that Social Security will receive funding from the General Fund, which is the country’s account to pay for the daily operations of the government. What […]
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