'My mother fled the Holocaust aged 12 clutching a tin that we still have today'

When the Nazis seized power in Germany Judith Carlebach was a schoolgirl starting out on life. The daughter of the last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg she escaped the Holocaust, aged 12, clutching her mother’s cake tin as a reminder of home.

That cake tin now takes pride of place in the kitchen of Judith’s daughter in Cardiff.

For Ruth Joseph the tin, which she still bakes with, is history and family legacy. A treasured heirloom it is also a searing reminder of the destruction of her mother’s family in the Holocaust which saw more than six million Jews across Europe murdered.