Her parents’ business and home were appropriated shortly afterwards and they moved to nearby Frankfurt before fleeing, in 1941, to the US. Liselotte remained in Switzerland, working as a nursing assistant at the Leysin clinic before joining her parents in New York in 1946. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Liselotte, centre, with children on the Leysin clinic’s terrace in the early 1940sIn 1953 Peter and Liselotte moved to the UK, where they married. In retirement she and Peter moved to Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, and then to London. Switzerland remained important to Liselotte, and it was the setting of her novel, Tongue-Tied, which she wrote in later life.

Source: The Guardian August 16, 2017 16:41 UTC