Hedy Wachenheimer was born to a Jewish family in Freiburg , and in 1939 fled Nazi persecution via the Kindertransport to England . All but two of her family were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust . During World War II she worked in munitions factories and joined a group of left-wing German Jewish refugees who hoped to re-introduce democracy in their homeland – " the foundation of my political education which still stands me in good stead today , " she said . Some 60 years later , she was interviewed about this experience for the film '' Into the Arms of Strangers : Stories of the Kindertransport ''
Nazi persecution
Kristallnacht
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