My grandmother, Elisabeth Evans, was a refugee from the Nazis during the second world war who found sanctuary in Britain. An only child, she lost most of her family during the conflict and went on to have eight children of her own.
Elisabeth, who has died aged 96, was born in Pottenstein, Austria, to Rose (nee Fanta), who was Jewish, and Ludwig Achtner, a Lutheran lawyer who worked for Jewish clients in Vienna.
