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Eva Miller is the only child of Richard and Gertrude Kuttner and was born in Berlin. Her mother died in childbirth and her father died in Auschwitz. Eva came to the UK on the Kindertransport and lived with Alf and Doreen Collins and their son in Glasgow. She settled in, married and had three children.… Continue Reading Eva Miller

Walter was born in 1933 and lived in Munster, Germany. His mother was a professional athlete and ran a sports car which she “loaned” to the Nazi party so she could use it whenever she wanted. His father had an Iron Cross 1st Class from WW1. With the help of a Catholic priest they escaped… Continue Reading Walter Gumprich

Suzanne was born in Budapest. At the start of the war, her parents were in London and they were separated for 7 years. She lived in a “starred house” for Jews for a while with her brothers and grandmother but was saved by being taken to a Wallenberg house. When the Russians invaded, they lived… Continue Reading Suzanne Ullman

Susan was born in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Three months after the Germans occupied Hungary, in June 1944 she and her family were sent by cattle truck to Auschwitz. Chosen to live by the notorious Josef Mengele, Susan was the only member of her family to survive. She describes the horrors of life there and later in… Continue Reading Susan Singerman

Sonja was born in Berlin, where her mother ran a dry cleaning business. Unlike Jewish professionals who lost their jobs in Nazi Germany, her mother was able to work and helped support those who were no longer earning. Her Polish father left for Thailand ending up in Shanghai. Sonja and her mother escaped Germany at… Continue Reading Sonja Hancox

Sidney was born in Landau, Germany. His father owned vineyards. On Kristallnacht his father was arrested and sent to Dachau and the family was forced to move to Mannheim. Sidney was sent to Britain on the Kindertransport but his parents were murdered in Auschwitz. He arrived in Dovercourt where a Glasgow family offered him a… Continue Reading Sidney Mayer

Saskia was born in 1954 in a Displaced Persons camp outside Nuremberg. Her mother, Brigitte, suffered greatly under the Nazis as a Mischling (mixed ancestry), then under the Czechs as a Sudeten German, and finally as a refugee in a DP camp. Despite everything, Saskia and her mother made a life for themselves in Britain… Continue Reading Saskia Tepe

Ruths’ journey took her from Germany to Switzerland, London, Scotland and finally back to Germany. After coming to Glasgow to do war work she married another German refugee in 1945. In 1958 Ruth, her husband and her daughter moved to Hamburg, Germany, where her husband joined his brother who owned a chocolate factory. Read More

Rosa was born in Berlin. She describes the devastating effects of the racial Nuremberg laws on the Jews. She came alone on the first Kindertransport. Amazingly, her mother and sister survived and joined her in Glasgow. She became an eminent paediatric nurse, wrote a widely used textbook, and was happily married to Joe for over… Continue Reading Rosa Sacharin