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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Two ways to see the history for yourself.

Exhibition panel titled Refugee journeys with a quotation, a passport and photographs.

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

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

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Plan a lessonLesson plans & classroom Resources

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Listen on the goOne podcast follows a genealogist’s search for a survivor’s lost family.

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Play a gameStep into a survivor’s story with our award-winning games.

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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

Hear Gretl’s testimony

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Games and films made with survivors and their families.

Game

Bob’s Story – a Holocaust refugee story Game

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.
Play the game →
Game

Suzanne – The Game

Suzanne is a light puzzle-platformer inspired by the true story of Suzanne Ullman’s experiences in Budapest during the Holocaust.
Incorporating her real-life spoken testimony, the game brings her story to life in a unique and innovative way.
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Game & lessons

Marion’s Journey

The exciting online experience follows the flight of Marion Camrass during the Second World War from occupied Poland, through Siberia, then Bukhara and finally to Glasgow where she settled, married and raised her family.
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Pupils in school uniform looking up at a tall brick building.

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.

The pupils then worked collaboratively with Magic Torch Comics to produce a comic about the lives of both Isi and his wife, Dany Metzstein. Dany also came to Scotland and was a refugee from the Holocaust.

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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