My Voice: Leo Stein: The story of my life

Leo Stein was born in 1922 in the German town of Pforzheim. Growing up in a Jewish family in Germany, Leo witnessed first-hand the rise of the Nazi regime and the horrors of Kristallnacht. Thanks to a Jewish school in Liverpool who granted Leo the promise of a scholarship, he was able to get a visa and escape Germany just before the outbreak of war.

Leo describes the kindness of families in Liverpool who provided food and shelter for the new arrivals, as well as the support from entities lik...