“This meant very little to me at the time but sounded quite romantic,” said Thomas.
“Now of course I look back and realise what Trudi and Erhart must have gone through when they fled in 1938 and arrived in Norfolk. I also admire my grandparents for taking them in to their home in Norwich and later Thorpe End.”
Erhart was a man of much standing, being a doctor of law in Prague and by profession a barrister.
Mystery still surrounds their escape from Hitler’s “mad dogs”, but it was our former editor Tom Copeman who came across them in the restaurant at Cromer.
Couple made new lives in Norfolk after escaping Nazi Europe
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