Robert Lenkiewicz'slife was unconventional from the start. Born in north London in 1941,his parents fled to England from Germany just before the war started. They met and married in London. As with many other German Jews who came as refugees to London, few members of their extended family survived the war. They set up a small hotel in Cricklewood. The three Lenkiewicz boys grew up there, surrounded by elderly Jewish residents of the hotel, some of whom were themselves refugees from the holocaust. Lenkiewicz’s early memories were of the often elderly and distressed, sometimes demented people who made their home at the hotel. Thus he experienced at first hand and at a young and impressionable age the impact that dispossession and violent prejudice could have on people.
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