Paul was refugee child from Austria. He arrived in the Netherlands on December 11th, 1938 with the first Kindertransport from Vienna. After two weeks in quarantine in a school in the Copernicusstraat in The Hague he lived in Ockenburgh, and in Huis ten Vijver. When he had to leave here he moved in with a family.
Paul was very good in math.
His mother, Rudolfine Freistadt, was born in 1897 in Vienn…