"We were at home when the doorbell rang. “Are you Mr. Appel? Then come with us.” My father turned to me and said: “You go to school.” This is the last thing he told me. I never saw him again"
Klaus Appel was born in Berlin in 1925. After his father’s arrest, Klaus and his sister Ruth got on one of the last Kindertransports to England. His older brother, 20-year-old Willy-Wolf, was arrested and murdered at Auschwitz like their father, who was 45 years old. After the war, Klaus met a Swiss woman. He worked as a watchmaker and lived in the French-speaking part of Switzerland where he passed away in April 2017. He has two children and three grandchildren.