Lisl Klein's life was a long and remarkable one. With roots in a large, extended Jewish family from Upper Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, the trajectory of her story describes an arc from childhood in the spa town of Karlsbad in the 1930s—now Karlovy Vary—to an accomplished career in social science in post-war London and beyond.

Together with her parents, Emil and Irma, she sought refuge in England after the annexation of the German-Sudetenland. Much of her family failed to get out and perished in Auschwitz. An only child, she was ten years old when she arrived in London, only shortly to be evacuated soon after to Sussex along with the rest of her school. Among