When Heinz learned  his parents Friedrich (born Calmsee, Germany 1888) and Suzanna née Rouscha (married 1917) had survived the war he got papers for them to come to Kenya. Friedrich had been a cantor and Hebrew teacher in Germany before the war, so was asked by the Nakuru Jews to be a minister and cantor as well as a teacher to the Nakuru Jewish congregation. He gave lessons to Jewish children in the synagogue once a week. He played the piano and other musical instruments and the children sang as he played. He made movies of all the Jewish festivals and the schoolchildren were the actors who dressed up to play the parts as Friedrich directed and filmed them. Though extremely short sighted he was determined to get a driving licence and after a few tests he succeeded. Drivers in Nakuru knew that it was always safest to drive on a Saturday. Freidrich was extremely proud of the new synagogue which was eventually completed in 1956. He died in Nakuru in 1967 aged 79 and his wife went to live with Heinz and his family who had left Kenya for Perth in W, Australia. She lived with them until she died there in 1976.

Heinz had trained at an agricultural college in Germany and was interned in a concentration camp in 1938. He was fortunate to have been sponsored to go to Kenya through the young Jewish Farmers' Scheme, and as he had valid documents he was soon released and was able to travel to Kenya via England.

Dave Lichtenstein - He left Germany in 1938 via England bound for Kenya. He managed farms around the Nakuru area including Ol Kalou, Naivasha and Njoro. Names that used to be bandied about were Griffin, Watts-Williams, Hopcraft and a name that sounds like Gattegno - the latter at some stage bought Bill Sewell's Forest Farm at Njoro and certainly my earliest recollections of life was Forest Farm (I was born in 1943 - the year that my mother Felicja Heringman came out to Kenya and married my father via Uganda and to there from Poland originally via Russia and the 'Stan' States)

I can also certainly confirm that my father worked for Mrs Griffin in Ol Kalou as her daughter Heather who went to the Kenya High School in 1947-50 remembered my father.

Years later when we were farming in the Uasin Gishu district (specifically Eldoret) I remember my father mentioning how he had bumped into Heather in Eldoret. She had married a Rooken-Smith who farmed in Turbo.

Left for W.Australia in 1962.

Nakuru North cemetery - LICHTENSTEIN, Given Name: Friedrich, Birth: 26 Dec 1888, Death: 21 May 1967, AGED: YR: 78, MO: 4, DA: 25, Inscriptions:Friedrich Lichtenstein / 26.12.1888 - 21.5.1967, Cemetery: Nakuru North Cemetery, Section: J,  

Gazette 8 Aug 1950 for wife's birthdate

Went to Western Australia

David was not his birth son (info given to Christine Nicholls by David Lichtenstein, who was trying to discover his birth father)