The former Pich-Sachs house is now the Best Western Swiss Cottage Hotel
Rosa's first stay at the Pich-Sachs house in Hampstead
Rosa's address on her entry to England had been at the pension (boarding house with meals provided in a communal dining room). It was known as Pich-Sachs, run by two formidable fellow refugee ladies, Frau Pich and Frau Sachs, at 4 Adamson Road, a dignified Nash terrace in Swiss Cottage.
She had one not very large room with a wash basin on the first floor, its large sash window overlooking the back garden and surrounded by just a very few of her most precious possessions: Minna's painting of the rhododendron bush in in the Botanical Gardens in Dahlem, Rosa's Kelim rug which covered her table, her sewing table with the chess board inlaid in its surface, some of her carpets, her Art Nouveau lamp, her light fittings.
Following her brief initial stay there before the war, Rosa had taken temporary lodgings in the Cromwell Road; then moved to a flat in Bermans Way, Neasden, London NW2. She went back to live at Pich-Sachs after the war.
