He married Edith Peller, later coming to Britain to escape Nazi persecution, but was interned in March 1940 because his nationality was Austrian.
When Dena – Geraldine Sherman – was born, her father was in an internment camp in Australia and her nervous mother sent her out of London to the safety of a Jewish orphanage in Shenfield, Essex.
Notes: 15 episodes: [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] 2 episodes: [49][50] When It's Over, by Geraldine Sherman and Eduardo Machado: Thin Ice, 1995 film[60] Dena Hammerstein worked as a volunteer in New York City hospitals for over 15 years, and in 2003 received the United Hospital Funds New Leadership Group's Humanitarian Award.
[4] She is Founder of Only Make Believe, a non-profit organisation that creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals and care facilities, inspired by her early work as an actress in the UK touring special-needs schools.
The actors arrive with a large dressing-up trunk to rehearse a play in hospital using a script by Dena and children as performers.