Sonja and Estera Baranska were identical twins born 18.1.31 in Barmen, Germany. They had three older siblings-two sisters and a brother- and one younger brother. Their mother died when the twins were four. One older sister, Leni, was sent to distant relatives in the United States in early 1938 at the age of eleven and the rest of the family intended to follow, but they were deported to Zbąszyń, Poland on 28 October 1938 during the Polenaktion before they were able to join Leni. The twins and their younger brother Rolf were all accepted on a Kindertransport arranged by the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund but at the last moment Rolf was struck off the list due to the fact he had conjunctivitis. The twins arrived in Britain on 30 August 1939 and were immediately separated. Esther went to a well-off  Jewish family with grown sons in Birmingham and Sonja to a childless working-class Jewish couple in London’s East End. Both girls remained with their foster families until they married. After the war, they learned their father and three siblings had been murdered in the Holocaust, but they had no idea how to locate their sister Leni in America. In 1956, through a fortuitous series of events, Leni, who had been searching for her sisters for seventeen years, finally located Sonja and through her Estera. Sonja and her British husband, who had twin baby girls of their own, chose to emigrate to Houston, Texas to join Leni and remained there for the rest of their lives. Estera married and remained in Britain.