DORA WIRTH LANGUAGES

Dora Wirth was born in Moscow in 1916. At the Counter Revolution in 1919, her family left for Warsaw and then onto Danzig where they lived until the late thirties. Dora came to England in 1935 speaking Russian, French, German, Polish and English. She had a passion for languages from which she started earning a living just before the outbreak of World War II at the Daily Express newspaper monitoring the occasional speeches by Hitler and Stalin. During the war this became her full time job. ... The monitoring service was based on Lord Beaverbrook's estate at Cherkley in Surrey, England. Lord Beaverbrook was the proprietor of the Daily Express newspaper and a minister in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet. Dora was widowed at the age of 43. She established her translation agency, initially known as Eurolink Limited, in 1962. For various reasons she continued trading, from 1964, as Dora Wirth (Languages) Limited.

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