On the night of 9/10 November 1938 ( Kristallnacht ) , his father was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He was released after four months but told to emigrate . Cohn went to Britain in May 1939 on the Kindertransport to work on a chicken farm , and never saw his parents again . He corresponded regularly with them until late 1941 . At the end of the War , he learned that they were deported to Riga on 6 December 1941 and never returned . At the end of 1941 , the farm closed . He trained as a precision engineer , acquired a work permit and worked in a factory for 4 ½ years . He passed the Cambridge Scholarship Examination , and won an exhibition to Trinity College , Cambridge
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Paul Cohn