Podcasts
The podcasts on the Gathering the Voices channel are more recent interviews with our interviewees and are inspiring oral histories from individuals who have faced adversity.
Gathering the Voices podcasts is a limited series of episodes, featuring interviews exploring the stories people have told to escape Nazi persecution and reach Scotland.
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Howard Singerman speaks to BBC Radio Scotland on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025.
Feb 1, 2025Howard Singerman is the son of Susan Singerman, a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp. Susan died in January 2011, but Howard keeps her memory alive by visiting schools and telling pupils about her experiences in the camps. BBC Scotland has granted Gathering the Voices permission to re-publish the audio on our website and podcast channel.
Evelyn Strang
Nov 15, 2024Evelyn was born in Leipzig in 1933. Evelyn and her mother were deported to Poland in 1938 but managed to escape to Britain as her father had set up a factory. Her Polish grandparents did not survive. The other grandparents lived in Berlin throughout the war. Her father set up a furrier’s business in Glasgow.… Continue Reading Evelyn Strang
Dany Metzstein (Danielle Kahn)
Sep 11, 2023Dany Metzstein (Danielle Kahn) was born in Montpellier, France in 1942. Her parents were in hiding and her father was involved with the Maquis. They survived the war in France, but after her father died, Dany had to stay in an orphanage and then a boarding school.She came to live in Motherwell, Scotland with her… Continue Reading Dany Metzstein (Danielle Kahn)
Erna Grace
Oct 27, 2022Erna Grace (Rabner) was born in Dortmund, Germany in 1930. Erna came on the Kindertransport when she was only eight years old. She had diphtheria while living in the reception camp in Harwich. She was taken in by Nurse Livingstone and her family In Glasgow with whom she lived with till she married. Sadly,… Continue Reading Erna Grace
Interview with Saskia Tepe
Jan 22, 2022Saskia Tepe was born in 1954 and lived in a Displaced Persons’ Camp outside Nurnberg until she was 7. Saskia describes the bravery of her mother Brigitte in escaping from a train to Auschwitz and her long journey to safety. Brigitte suffered greatly under the Nazis a Mischling (mixed ancestry) then under the Czechs as… Continue Reading Interview with Saskia Tepe