Biography

I was born on 16 June 1922 in Cuciurul-Mare (Romania), where my father was district medical officer, and where he met my mother Lotte in the nearby villaga of Voloca.

My  first ten years were spent attending the local primary school. Grandma Singer  from Voloca owned property  in Czernowitz and gave my parents a first floor  flat at Str. Stefan-Mare 10a previously the Siebenburgerstrase.

My father's  mother (Bertha Sommer), married sister and child Ruth Baumgarten lived in the  Bahnhofstrasse; my mother had a cousin Dr, Moritz Einhorn whose son was Ehrich  and we went to the same school, Seminarul Pedagogic Universitar until I was 16  1/2 years old. (See my article below: 'Relative values and Poetic Licence'; it tells the story and my  interest in Paul Celan)

Threatening political storm clouds gathered on the horizon, and I had  English lessons and was eventually sent to England in care of  Bassia Jaslowitz in London.

I attended  the Grocers Company School to Matriculate, and then then St. Marys' Hospital to  qualify as a Doctor.  I later devoted most of my life to anaesthesia. 

I married Anne Shineberg and  we had two children Ruth and Allan. Before the marriage, once naturalised as a British citizen, I changed my name to Jarvis to avoid any stigma in the  childrens future careers.

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The Complete Jaslowitz Story