admin An exhibition of testimonies from men and women who fled to Scotland from Nazi-occupied Europe has gone on display at the University of Dundee. The Gathering The Voices exhibition features more than 40 moving stories of refugees from Second World War Europe, and was on display at the university’s Chaplaincy Centre Rev Michael Allardice (pictured), … Read more
Recently one of our testimonial contributors to Gathering the Voices Website, Joe Cent was featured in the Daily Record
On the 2nd of April, 2018 the Gathering the Voices website – received an e-mail from a lady called Sheryl Ross.
As a child, Marion Camrass undertook an epic journey from Poland to Siberia and then Uzbekistan, as World War Two raged around her, before she finally made it to Glasgow. The 85-year-old will be spending Holocaust Memorial Day like every day, with her own thoughts of family lost at that time, but also the new … Read more
Hilary and I were in Augsburg, Germany at the end of June attending the centenary celebrations of the Augsburg synagogue, one of the few synagogues to have survived the Nazis and WW2, and has since been restored to its former glory – see link below for more info http://www.jkmas.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Press-Release-Augsburg-Synagogue-100-Years.pdf About 100 descendants from the former … Read more
In this presentation, Dr Angela Shapiro will outline the key features of a Scottish community-based project ‘Gathering the Voices’. The key aim of Gathering the Voices is to collect and make freely available online, the oral and videoed testimony from men and women who sought sanctuary in Scotland as a consequence of Nazi persecution. The … Read more
Calderwood Lodge Primary School displayed the Gathering the Voices exhibition in May 2016. To Say thank you for the achievement, we sent the school a thank you certificate. See the picture showing it on display! Visit Calderwood School Website
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has been honoured by her alma mater for her life-long commitment promoting love over hate. Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) graduate Saskia Tepe has been presented with an Alumni Achievement Award. Saskia penned the memoir Surviving Brigitte’s Secrets, which gained international recognition, detailing the gravity of her mother’s wartime experiences, … Read more
The Gathering the Voices team are especially proud that our exhibition was featured at the Scottish National Holocaust Memorial event in Ayr, and was honoured by a personal visit to our display by Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Born in 1933, Francine Christophe was deported with her mother at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. Released the following year, she continues to share her experience and memories, particularly with the younger generations.