Claire's parent’s came out from Czechoslovakia in 1939 after seeking refuge in the United Kingdom. Here she talks about what it was like to fit into a predominantly Christian school, maintaining Jewish culture and religion in family life and realising her newfound desire to learn more about her Jewish ancestors in pre-1930 Europe.  Claire is a member of the Progressive Synagogue in Auckland, and writes for the newsletter Taroua. In 1993 she established a Jewish Oral History group. Her interviews are deposited at the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Claire is also a patron of the Arts, and of the Auckland Maon Trust for Jewish Youth.