My father, Kenneth Stern, who has died aged 96, came to the UK in 1939 as a 10-year-old refugee from Nazi Germany, and in later life played a key role in fostering relations between the place of his birth, Hamburg, and his adopted home of London.
He lived a stone’s throw from Marble Arch in central London for more than half of his life, but it was not until retirement that he became more involved in local affairs, largely through the circumstance of acquiring a dalmatian, William, whom he walked through Hyde Park.
