Erich Reich (M / Austria, 1935), Holocaust survivor

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Erich Reich (M / Austria, 1935), Holocaust survivor.

Biography

Reich was born in 1935 in Vienna, Austria. In 1938, he was one of the children of 5,000 families deported by Nazi Germany to Poland. Under the Kindertransport agreement, he arrived in the United Kingdom, aged 4, in August 1939, one of 10,000 children. He never saw his parents again, who were murdered in Auschwitz.[1] Initially placed with a foster family in Dorking, Surrey he attended the Dorking County Grammar School from 1946-48 when he moved to a Jewish school in North London. Aged 13 he emigrated to the new state of Israel in 1948.

Reich returned to London in 1967, working as an entrepreneur and philanthropist through his charity Classic Tours.

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