Life Between the Lines
John Izbicki has an exciting story to tell. Berlin-born, he lived through the horrors of Nazi persecution and, on the day after his eighth birthday, he witnessed the Kristallnacht, and the smashing of his parents’ shop windows. The Izbickis escaped to England and he began a remarkable journey from school to university, two years of national service.
He became the distinguished education correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, then head of the Telegraph’s Paris office. Serving with the Directors of Polytechnics, he played a leading part in transforming the country’s polytechnics into its ‘new universities’.