Leonard Lawrence: copy personal papers and diary
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Leonard Lawrence: copy personal papers and diary
Leopold Weil was born in Karlsruhe in 1925. His father Nathan Weil was born in 1885 and died in 1937. His mother Irene Weil (née Kauders, born in 1899) emigrated to the USA. Leopold Weil went to school in Milan until 1938. He must have returned to Germany as he emigrated to England as a teenage refugee on a Kindertransport in 1939. There he changed his name to Leonard Lawrence. He initially lived at a camp near Ipswich, Suffolk, from where he moved to a hostel in London to work as a tailor. He served in the Lincolnshire Regiment. He was naturalised in 1947 and married Muriel Harris in 1963.
Leonard Lawrence: copy personal papers and diary