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6 days agoVernon Katz obituary
Vernon Katz, a Kindertransport refugee, became an Oxford scholar and contributed significantly to the translation of key Indian philosophical texts.
Born in June 1924 in a Jewish family, he describes how he had a relatively normal childhood until the Anschluss of 1938 - when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany - meant that life "took a completely different meaning and survival became the only aim". "Jewish shops and premises, synagogues, offices and anything where there was a Jewish connection quickly became a target for violence, fire, destruction, robbery, and personal attack," he writes.