[1] Arnold Pomerans was born in Königsberg, Germany, on 27 April 1920 to a Jewish family.
Because of growing antisemitism in Germany the family left for Yugoslavia and later South Africa.
In 1948 Arnold Pomerans emigrated to England, where he became a full-time translator in the 1950s, after first working as a teacher.
Among the authors he translated are Louis de Broglie, Werner Heisenberg, Anne Frank, Sigmund Freud, Johan Huizinga, Jean Piaget, Jacques Presser and Jan Romein.
[3] In 1956, Pomerans married Erica White and they moved to Polstead in Suffolk the following year.