Hans Joseph Sigismond Liebermann was born in Berlin in 1922. He was the youngest of three children in a Jewish family. Before the start of the War, his brother went to South Africa and his sister first to the Free City of Danzig, and then later to Bulgaria and Argentina. His parents refused to leave and were deported to Poland and killed in Lodz concentration camp. His sister married a non-Jewish German who returned to Berlin and collected Hans, then 16 years old, and took in to the Netherlands where he put him on a plane to Manchester in 1939. Hans was interned on the Isle of Man for one year at the start of the War, and then sent to Coventry to work in a munitions factory. He was bombed out in the Coventry Blitz and made homeless. The Salvation Army housed him until he moved to Leamington Spa for the duration of the war. He lived there until his death in 1997. Hans never talked about his experiences, but his brother and sister eventually made contact through the Red Cross and all ended up living in England.