Early Life
Grade was born in Tokmak, southern Crimea, Ukraine (then Imperial Russian territory) to Isaak and Olga Winogradsky. In 1912, the Jewish family emigrated to Bethnal Green in the East End of London to escape Cossack violence and anti-Semitism. Isaak worked as a trouser-presser while his three sons (Grade and his younger brothers, Bernard and Leslie) attended the Rochelle Street Elementary School near Shoreditch, where Yiddish was spoken by 90% of the pupils. For two years the Winogradksys lived in rented rooms at the north end of Brick Lane, before moving to the nearby Boundary Estate.
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