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Rudi Leavor was born in may 31, 1926 in Berlin. Rudi was one of the survivors of the holocaust. Rudi’s father was a dentist, Rudi’s family all lived in one room set aside as his father’s surgery. The family were fully integrated into German culture and society.Rudi's parents had many non-Jewish friends. Their best friends were non-Jewish and the lady of the couple taught Rudi to play the piano. Rudi went to a German school from the age of six and only experienced one anti-Semitic incident during his four years at primary school. His main memory of the Nazis before 1936 is of seeing and hearing the marches of SS and SA men along the main road where he lived. Rudi found these marches, and the aggressive songs the marchers sung, terrifying. The life of Rudi and his family changed do to an incident that occur in 1936. The incident occur when he was getting ready for school, when two plainclothes …show more content…
Gestapo(secret police) arrived at the flat and pushed their way into the flat while his parents were still sleeping. After Rudi had left to school, the Gestapo told his parents to be ready in 10 minutes to go to the headquarters of the Lodge. Rudi's father was President and his mother was Treasurer of the ladies' Lodge. They were told to bring with them all the money they had that belonged to the Lodge. Once they were taken to the Lodge where other members were already assembled, and made them stand silently in a line for hours. Towards the end of the afternoon Rudi's mother was forced to hand over all the money she had brought with her which belonged to the Lodge. Finally the Gestapo people released all the people and told them to make their own way home. After all of that had happened the father decided to leave Berlin and go to a different place where there was no more violence. The father of Rudi went to england five times, and his mother went to england five times, in order to get visas for his family to entry to england. The father of Rudi had to also get permission from the dental board to work as a dentist in another place. The father was told to do not go to London and Manchester because there were already too many refugees in that place. The family the move to Bradford on november 10, 1937 because they didn't have another option. When they went to live to Bradford they needed to start a new live because everything was different. Rudi’s father had to find a new house and the house that he found was very cold. Rudi's father enrolled him in Bradford grammar school where he made rapid progress in learning English, though he found it hard to make friends. Although it was difficult at first, the family were very glad to get out of Germany and Bradford became home straight away. Rudi did National Service in the Army and followed his father's footsteps in training to be a dentist. He met his future with his wife Marianne after giving a talk to a youth group attached to a London synagogue. Rudi and Marianne settled in Bradford and in 1959 decided to change their name, from Rudi's original surname Liebowitz to the Anglicised version Leavor. For many years Rudi has been an active member of the Reform synagogue in Bradford. He and Marianne have four children and eight grandchildren. Rudi Leavor came to Bradford with his parents and younger sister Winnie as a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1937 aged 11, having been raised in Berlin. He spent his career as a dentist having a successful practice in Heckmondwike, near Batley. He was made President and Chairman of the Bradford Synagogue in 1975. He lives in Bradford with his wife Marianne. In the Spring of 2013, aged 86, he secured funding for urgent repairs to the Grade II listed 1881 built Synagogue with the help of the local Muslim Community through the Bradford Council for Mosques and other businesses and groups in the area. Rudi recounts how he and his family fled their home in Berlin, in Nazi Germany, to Bradford and how they adapted to their new life in a foreign country. I believe that Rudi Leavor was a person that was really strong because he had pass through many bad things. For example, one of the things that rudi leavor had pass through was when he had to leave Berlin and go to Bradford. I think that was an event that was important because if he leave Berlin to move to a different place he would have to get used to the other place. Also that’s important because he and his family would have to met new people and also learn a new language. Before they move to Bradford the father of Rudi had to get permission from both the home office and the Dental board to go to Bradford to practise as a dentist. For example, if you go to a new place that you haven’t been before, then you will not know where to go when you get to that place. Rudi leavor said that when his father got to that place he didn’t know nothing about the geography of england. Then the father of Rudi ask too many people where he could work and they answer anywhere but London and Manchester because there were already too many jewish refugee dentist on those towns. After the father try to find work in other places he asked a person where he can find work? And the clerk put a metaphorical pin in the map, and Bradford was fairly central and so his father told Rudi that they were going to go to Bradford to find a job. Rudi said that when they got to Bradford, he think there were probably over a thousand jewish and most of them belonged to the Orthodox synagogue and some of them belonged to the reform synagogue. Rudi remember that the two synagogues were in two different sides of Manningham Lane but within walking distance, and on Yom Kippur Rudi can remember if the services got a bit boring, people from both synagogues would cross Manningham Lane to the other one, for half an hour or so, and on Manningham Lane there would be like a stream of ants meeting each other going to the other synagogue. But now Rudi think there are no more that about 300 jewish people in Bradford and the Orthodox synagogue has moved to Shipley a couple miles away from the reform which is still where it was, and so there is no longer the interchange of people on Yom Kippur. Rudi said attendance at synagogue has dwindled, mainly because there are fewer people, and people have moved away to outlying districts and would think twice now about coming to synagogue on Shabbat or festivals. Both the grandfathers of Rudi were very Orthodox. The paternal grandfather of Rudi died when he was about 53 in about 1913 and so Rudi didn't know him, and he was President of the Jewish community in Purtzaltzhaur or Ratslav depending on whether the name of the town was in Polish or German, and he was also the mohel of the community. The maternal grandfather of Rudi lived in Frankfurt where the Jewish community was a very unique one they had their own minhag( is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism) for some of the services they were so frum. The maternal grandfather of Rudi emigrated to what was then Palestine in 1934, but Rudi did know him. The wife of the maternal grandfather died in 1929 of cancer and Rudi knew her briefly when he was 3. The paternal grandmother of RudiI knew very well until the emigration in 1937 and she later died in Theresienstadt concentration camp, Rudi believe of old age, He don't think that she was actually murdered. The parents of Rudi in Berlin had a kosher household and we used to go to synagogue fairly regularly. When Rudi and his family emigrated in 1937 they settled in Bradford, and they continued to have a kosher household and during the war the food situation was not very good and Rudi seem to remember that the chief Rabbi gave dispensation to people that they could eat not kosher food. They joined the Orthodox synagogue until about 1950, when Rudi and his father changed to the reform synagogue for personal rather than religious reasons. They fitted into the reform synagogue quite well and the father of Rudi became chairman eventually and also Rudi too as well. In 1955 Rudi married a girl who came from London, to a girl who had a similar background to Rudi’s. She came from Bretslav in Germany which is now called Vrotslav in Poland. Rudi and his wife settled in Bradford Where he became a dentist, and they had four children, two boys and two girls and they too got married, and they now have eight grandchildren, aged from 13 down. Rudi was lucky enough to get a place in Bradford Grammar school when they first arrived in Bradford and the school days for Rudi were happy.
Rudi said it was a good school and that he was a good student. Also he said that the people in Bradford were friendly, whether they were jewish or not jewish people and life was fairly leisurely compared with London. Rudi’s opinion about London is that “life in London is hectic, it's very nice to go there and visit relatives and friends, but it is very nice to come back to Bradford it is a quiet, or a quieter life”. Rudi have always liked living in London and he feel very much at home in Bradford. I agree with all the choices that Rudi and his family made because I would maybe make the same choices as them. For example, if i was in a situation like the Holocaust I would made the same choice that Rudi’s father made which was to leave the country and try to find a new country to refugee. This shows why I also agree with the decisions that Rudi’s father made because Rudi’s father always think in his family first to have a better
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