Hurst grew up in a family of actors . As a Jewish child living in 1930s Germany , he faced persecution from the Nazi regime . After the pogroms of Kristallnacht , the British government allowed for the rescue of Jewish children from Germany , Austria , Czechoslovakia , Poland and the Free City of Danzig . He was one of the nearly 10,000 children in 1938 – 1939 moved with the Kindertransport to the United Kingdom . When he was separated from his mother he was 12 years old . He never saw her again
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
David Hurst