Gerda Rubinstein obituary

My mother, Gerda Rubinstein Stevens (she used her maiden name for her work), who has died aged 90, had a long and prolific career as a sculptor, first in the Netherlands and then in the UK.Gerda was born in Berlin; two years later, in 1933, the family moved to Amsterdam. In 1940, her father, Willem Rubinstein, an outerwear designer and garment-maker, was taken by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he died. Continue reading...