Jacobius - Arno James - 1924-2009

Arno James Jacobius (1924-2009) was born in Berlin. He lived in Berlin-Steglitz with his mother Johanna Rachel Jacobius. Being Jewish, Arno's mother decided to send Arno on a Kindertransport to England in May 1939 in order to avoid him being persecuted. Arno attended the Whittingehame Farm School in Scotland. He lived in a kibbutz in Shropshire until he was 18 years old. He then joined the Jewish Brigade of the British Army and stayed on after the war to work as a translator at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, informing senior Nazis of the court's decisions. When he returned to England he joined the gas board working in the marketing department. He married Joyce Elizabeth Wilkes from Wales. They had one daughter, Jo.

Arno's mother, Johanna Jacobius, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in November 1942. She perished in the Holocaust.

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