Rudi Oppenheimer was born in 1931, lived in Amsterdam and in 1943 was sent with his family to the transit camp Westerborg,
In 1944 the family was deported to Bergen-Belsen. His parents died in 1945, but he survived with his siblings and arrived in London in 1945.
He worked as an engineer for Shell, designing, building and maintaining power stations, and is retired.