Gathering the Voices

Testimonies

Stories of Holocaust refugees who escaped Nazi persecution

Learn about their new lives in Scotland and the legacies they built.

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Timeline

The Holocaust Timeline

Bringing history to life: A visual journey of those who fled the Holocaust for Scotland.

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Game

Bob’s Story

Bob’s Story is a point and click hidden object game which needs a keyboard and mouse. The game recounts the experience of Bob Kutner when he was a young boy living in Italy just before WW2, working alongside his brother who was a spy for the French Secret Service.

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Explore the testimonials

Explore our collection of first-hand accounts from the Holocaust who found sanctuary in Scotland. These oral histories preserve the voices and experiences of those who witnessed one of history’s darkest chapters.

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Exhibition panel titled Refugee journeys, with a quotation from Leo Metzstein, a Polish passport belonging to Marion Camrass and Ingrid Wuga’s visa card, each with a plus-shaped hotspot button.

The Gathering The Voices Exhibition

The Gathering the Voices Exhibition is a dedicated resource designed to share powerful stories with communities and schools across Scotland and beyond.

By bringing these histories into a digital space, the exhibition provides an immersive way to explore the lives of those who escaped Nazi persecution.

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Cover of the comic Dany and Isi Metzstein: Where our Stories Met, showing an illustrated portrait of Dany and Isi.

A page from the comic, with Isi Metzstein as an older man remembering his childhood in Berlin.

Dany & Isi Metzstein – Video & Comic

Pupils at St Andrew’s and St Bride’s High School, East Kilbride have produced two films and a comic.

The first film is about the architect Isi Metzstein’s journey to Scotland on the Kindertransport in 1939. The second film explains the learning journey that the pupils undertook.

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Common Good Comics

Comics created through the Common Good project.

Gathering the Voices has collaborated with Magic Torch Comics to create two graphic novels (comics).

The first tells the story of Gathering the Voices and second is a moving poem dedicated to Howard Singerman’s aunt who died in Auschwitz

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Black and white photograph of a large group of children in coats and hats, several holding suitcases, standing close together outdoors.

The Holocaust Timeline

The Holocaust timeline charts the events of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945, with extracts from the testimonies of people who came to Scotland.

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In their words

“I remember coming home from school and seeing an old man having to scrub the pavement, and a whole lot of brownshirts standing round poking him with rifles, and everybody laughing and jeering.”

Gretl Shapiro, remembering Vienna, March 1938

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An elderly man with arms outstretched, surrounded by smiling school pupils in a railway station. — Mr Henry Wuga MBE, 98, at the launch of our new Kindertransport resources

Poppy Scotland Classroom Resources

In 2022 we partnered with Poppy Scotland to create classroom resources to share the remarkable stories of Holocaust refugees who fled Nazi Germany and made their home in Scotland.

Download the Kindertransport lessons and special intro pack

Not sure where to begin?

Whether you have five minutes or a whole lesson, here are four good places to start.

Hear a survivor’s story

Start with a short testimony from someone who came to Scotland as a refugee.

Testimonies

Plan a lesson

Lesson plans & classroom Resources

Using our resources

Listen on the go

One podcast follows a genealogist’s search for a survivor’s lost family.

Podcast

Resources

Access our collection of lesson plans, digital comics, and interactive resources designed to teach the Holocaust through the resilient voices of those who made Scotland their home.

Resources