December 2025
Originally from Germany, Elisabeth Dopazo has also lived in England, Canada, and settled in the Brookline area with her loving husband years ago (they heard there was a Tea Party in Boston!) Elisabeth learned to speak English while working at the Old House Hotel in Windsor. She also was a cook at Eton College in England, and later worked as a teacher’s aide and lecturer for 40 years. Elisabeth was born on the border of Germany, in Saxony, where her father was a barber. During WWII he hid Jews in his basement, and when a neighbor reported him, he was arrested. After his third arrest, he was executed at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. Her mother was arrested and imprisoned for five years, and Elisabeth and her brother were taken by police to their grandparents’ in North Germany. Elisabeth recalls hating school, due to the Nazi teachers.
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