Viva Lewes Issue #112 January 2016

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in town this month Holocaust Memorial The end of childhood “I think they could see what was going to happen,” says Tim Locke. His mother, Ruth Neumeyer, born in 1923, had been having “a very happy childhood” in the Bavarian town of Dachau. But as the 1930s progressed, things started to get difficult for the Neumeyers, one of four Jewish families in the town. “They called them Judensau (sow Jew), which is a pretty nasty insult. They got stones thrown at them. The beginning of the end was really in 1937. They used to do plays in their house, all the children dressed up, they got neighbours and friends round to watch them. “They were doing a nativity play for Christmas, and while they’re doing it there was a hammering at the door and these two Gestapo people came in and said ‘aren’t you ashamed to be in the house of a Jew?’ They sent them away, and the children burst into tears, and the lodger was arrested. That was kind of the beginning of the end. It was the end of their plays, and I think for her, that was the end of her childhood, that moment. “In November 1938, on Kristallnacht, they were told by the Gestapo that they had to leave the next morning by sunrise, which was the usual thing. So they picked up their stuff and scrammed to Munich. Eventually they got to stay in various people’s attics. I don’t quite know to what extent they were in hiding.” In May 1939, the Neumeyers got Ruth and her brother onto the Kindertransport – the trains which brought around 10,000 refugee children to Britain in the ten months before the war. Ruth initially lived in London with the family of the economist Frank Paish, but spent some of the war working as a housekeeper in Cambridge. She made friends easily, and “I think she forgot her former life quite a bit.” However, she had been expecting her parents to join her in Britain at some point, Tim thinks. This didn’t happen; they’d left it too late. They were able to send brief messages, via the Red Cross, saying they were okay. In 1942, these messages stopped. She later discovered that her parents had died in concentration camps. Ruth was the kind of person who, “if it was tipping down with rain, she’d say ‘oh, I expect it’ll clear up in a moment,’” Tim says. “She had this stoical and positive outlook on things, and I think she just kind of pushed it to the back of her mind somehow. She didn’t really confide… she never said she was feeling upset; it just wasn’t her style. “But I’m sure it did have a long-term effect. It must have done. To have lost your parents at that age, and to be stuck in another country... I think she must have had to grow up incredibly quickly.” Steve Ramsey There are several events and exhibitions in <strong>Lewes</strong> this month to commemorate the Holocaust. On Holocaust Memorial Day itself, Weds Jan 27th, there’s a free event at the Town Hall, with speakers including Tim Locke, as well as music and readings. Tim’s family-history blog is ephraimneumeyer.wordpress.com 33
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