A former Bond girl, who fled to Britain from the Nazis as a child, has been honoured by a German museum with an exhibition on her life.
Night Flight To Berlin, at the Pankow Museum in Berlin, tells the story of actress Nikki van der Zyl and her family, who left their home in the city in 1939.
She said: “The exhibition shows how we had to uproot ourselves during the Nazi era and how we succeeded in contributing to the Jewish community in the UK.”
The display describes how Ms van der Zyl’s father, the renowned Rabbi Dr Werner van der Zyl “battled to establish the Leo Baeck College [in London] which became his lasting legacy to Reform Judaism”.
