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Mary Clare Adam

Oct 1, 2026

Olivia RosenmanNARRATOR
9:29
He was also a skilled and prolific painter.
9:32
He didn't keep an actual written diary, but he kept a diary through his paintings and he did wonderful watercolors of actually all the stages of his life.
9:47
I mean, a beautiful bridge in Berlin with gorgeous green trees and flowers and whatever, and then Berlin itself and lots of England in the 30s, gorgeous paintings and optimistic and lovely.
Olivia RosenmanNARRATOR
10:32
He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts where he gave lectures and seminars, and he had a part-time job at the University of London.
10:41
He was actually very happy living in England.
10:45
His brother came about six months later.
10:49
They rented an apartment there and I actually found it and it's opposite one part of Hampstead Heath, very nice.
10:57
And they were happily living there until suddenly in May of 1940, Winston Churchill decided that every single person who came from Austria or Germany or any part of former Germany could be or was a Nazi spy and they had to be arrested.
Josh BornsteinNARRATOR
9:25
He was also a skilled and prolific painter.
9:28
He didn't keep an actual written diary, but he kept a diary through his paintings, and he did wonderful watercolors of actually all the stages of his life.
9:43
I mean, a beautiful bridge in Berlin with gorgeous green trees and flowers and whatever, and then Berlin itself, and lots of England in the 30s, gorgeous paintings, and optimistic and lovely.
Josh BornsteinNARRATOR
10:28
He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts where he gave lectures and seminars, and he had a part-time job at the University of London.
10:37
He was actually very happy living in England.
10:41
His brother came about six months later.
10:44
They rented an apartment there, and I actually found it, and it's opposite one part of Hampstead Heath, very nice.
10:53
And they were happily living there until suddenly in May of 1940, Winston Churchill decided that every single person who came from Austria or Germany or any part of former Germany could be or was a Nazi spy, and they had to be arrested.

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