Max Greenwood (formerly Gruenbaum, 1900-1964) was born in Nuremberg, Bavaria. He volunteered to enlist in the Bavarian Army in the First World War. Greenwood studied medicine at Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg universities. When his medical licence was withdrawn in July 1933 because he was Jewish he decided to emigrate. He arrived in the UK in October 1933 but had to retrain as a physician. In 1934 he moved to Stourbridge to start work as surgery assistant and took over the surgery in 1938. In 1944 he got married to Edith Elisabeth Hanauer (1913-c2009), also a Jewish refugee who was originally from Frankfurt am Main. She was a sculptor and had several exhibitions in the UK. She later studied photography. They had one son, James Michael (1946-1967). Edith's parents, Berthold (1912-1949) and Rosa Hanauer (1889-1978) also emigrated to England but the exact circumstances of the Hanauer family's emigration are not known. Rosa and her two brothers, Alfred (1888-1949) and Sali Heidenheimer who both lived in America, originally came from Würzburg, Bavaria. Alfred Heidenheimer moved to the USA in 1909 and became a successful businessman.