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Mrs Beer tells of her family life growing up and how they were involved with the running of the Jewish Temporary Shelter, in the East End of London. Her father was born in Latvia, came to England, went to Chicago and qualified as a pharmacist, returned and joined Kitchener's army in the RAMC in 1914. Afterwards he and her mother married in 1919 he became Superintendent of the Federation Burial Society. Her mother's family, Roth, came from Khalish, Poland and her mother's sister was Matron of the Jewish Temporary Shelter and with her husband lived on the premises at 82 Leman Street. They then moved to 32 Mansell Street which was purpose built, with about 150 people staying there at any one time. Mrs Beer remembers how refugees came first from Germany in 1932, who were a bit independent and then the Polish who came with very little and made use of her Aunt's store room full of donated clothes. Before the war her Aunt would organise a Shelter Seder for any Jew who had nowhere to go and a room for a Shul, as well as concerts and she recalls how the children would help her Aunt with the cooking, especially shelling hard boiled eggs, along with Polish women who lived nearby. When the camps were liberated Mrs Beer remembers the groups of children, mainly under16, who came to stay in the Shelter.
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