Foster is Jewish ; his grandfather was in the Dachau concentration camp , but was released when he gave up his factories and he moved to Palestine . 21 of his relatives died in the Holocaust . Foster 's father , Walter Foster ( born Fast ) , was born in Vienna in 1923 and arrived in London as a refugee following Kristallnacht . Walter later ran the Anglo-Austrian Society until 1992 and died in December 2009 . Foster 's mother Rachel Ginsburg helped draft the Children Act 1948 . They met at the London School of Economics and married in 1949 . Foster has two brothers and a sister , and four daughters
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