- Frank Auerbach was born in Berlin in 1931 to an upper-middle class family that descended from a line of rabbis.
- His mother Charlotte was a former art student, and his father Max was a patent lawyer.
- Hitler's persecution of the Jews was inexorably building during the 1930s, and when Auerbach was 7 years old, his panicked parents sent him to England as part of the Kindertransport, the mass emigration of Jewish children from central and eastern Europe.
- Auerbach never saw his parents again; they wrote letters for a few years but those were heavily censored and then eventually stopped in 1943.
- At English boarding school during his boyhood, Auerbach dabbled in acting as well as art, but had no proper training.
- He laughed to an interviewer that "it was such a funny and marvelous school that the teachers were either too highly qualified or not qualified at all so the art master was the gardener." After graduating, he was essentially alone with very little money and a prevailing shyness about his heavy accent.
- He made his way in London, however, and soon decided to enroll in art school.
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