My mother, Renee Bornstein, who has died aged 90, was a remarkable woman of strength, resilience and grace. As a child of Jewish parents in wartime France, she experienced extraordinary challenges, including a harrowing interrogation by the Gestapo in a prison cell at the age of 10.
She survived the Nazi occupation to establish a happy adult life, first in Munich, then in Manchester, where she worked as a property manager while raising her children and grandchildren.
