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Erwin Rockwell (formerly Rachwalsky) left Berlin in 1933 to work as a civil engineer in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1936 he came to England as he had managed to get a job with London Transport, starting in January 1937. Carla Simon joined him from Berlin and they were married at Hampstead Registry Office on the 30th December 1936. Their daughter, Alice, was born in London in September 1937.

Erwin's parents, Theodore (Theo) and Frieda Rachwalsky managed to get to the UK from Berlin, where Theo had been a general practitioner, shortly before the outbreak of war.

Carla’s parents, Walter and Helene, Simon remained in Berlin and were deported and killed at the Riga Ghetto in 1943.

During the early part of the war Erwin and Stefan were interned as enemy aliens. It also appears that Carla was interned at the women’s internment camp, Rushen, on the Isle of Man along with her daughter, Alice, and her mother in law Frieda Rachwalsky.

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