Lea’s origins were in Poland, she had immigrated with her husband to East London in the middle of 1930. She was one of the lucky few that managed to escape from the anti-Semitic climate that dominated central Europe; she was one of the few thousand Jews that had literally swarmed into East London during the interwar period. They rented a room in Stepney Green, it was small but convenient, and they shared the kitchen and the bathroom with ten more people. All of them were immigrants from Poland and Russia. Both Lea and her husband knew tailoring and they easily found a job with a Polish- Jewish tailor in Whitechapel. Their wages were not particularly high, but enough for them to live. They kept hearing the news about the persecution of the Jews in Germany, Austria, Poland, about the new law
