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Dame Vera Stephanie "Steve" Shirley CH, DBE, FREng, DFBCS (previously Brook, née Buchthal; born 16 September 1933) is an information technology pioneer, businesswoman and philanthropist (naturalised British in 1951).[2][3] Shirley was born as Vera Buchthal to Arnold Buchthal, a judge in Dortmund who was Jewish and who lost his post to the Nazi regime,[4] and a non-Jewish Viennese mother. In July 1939 Shirley arrived, at the age of five together with her nine-year-old sister Renate, in Britain as a Kindertransport child refugee, and recognized how lucky she was to have been saved.[4][5] She was placed in the care of foster parents living in the Midlands town of Sutton Coldfield.[1] She was later re-united with her biological parents, but said she "never really bonded with them".[6] Shirley attributes her early childhood trauma as being the driving force behind her ability to keep up with changes in her life and career.[citation needed] After attending a convent school, she moved to Oswe

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