Her father fled Prague in 1939 and found refuge in Great Britain; her sister, Shulamit Engländer Amir, was rescued by Nicholas Winton on the 1939 Children's Transport to London.
She then worked as a freelance writer for the BBC German Service and taught at the Polytechnic of Central London.
She worked for the Fontane letter edition and wrote her doctoral thesis on Faust in the GDR under Walter Jens at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
[2] Numerous publications on the problems of exile and the Shoah, including Yiddish in English, on the authors Lion Feuchtwanger, Heinrich Mann, Friedrich Torberg, Hermynia Zur Mühlen and Arnold Zweig.
She is the complete editor of the three-volume edition of works by Hermann Sinsheimer [de], Volume I, 2013.