Main image: Dorothy Bohm, 2022 - Copyright Lydia Goldblatt
Dorothy Bohm was born in 1924 into an affluent, assimilated and cultured Jewish family then living in Koenigsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) where she enjoyed a relatively untroubled childhood.
In 1932 the family moved to what seemed the greater safety of nearby Memel (now Klaipeda in Lithuania). But in June 1939, soon after the Nazis marched into Memel, her parents made the wise decision to send her to England. She wasn’t to see them again for over twenty years.