A school with a Jewish namesake who survived the Holocaust has a high educational, social and ethical obligation to keep the memory of the namesake alive and to cultivate it. For several years now, our school has been attended by Protestant and Catholic children alike, in some cases by children of Islamic or other faith … Read more
INT: Can I ask you when you came here, did people know about your background? Did they know about your German background and your Jewish background and what brought you to Britain in the first place? KR: Which people? INT: The people you met here in Dundee, the local people who became your friends and … Read more
INT: And then after the war, what happened after the war? Did you go on to university, did you get a job? PR: You had to do war work during the war. KR: Yes, I did some war work, now what was it, yes, because of my ability to speak German, the Ministry of Economic … Read more
INT: So when you were evacuated, did you all stay in a big school together or did you stay with people? KR: No, we were, my whole class were loaded into a lorry and … PR: You went by train and then lorry. KR: Pardon? PR: You went by train and then from the station, … Read more
INT: Tell us about coming to Britain then, how did you feel about your arrival in a strange country, did you have any English or did your sister speak any English? KR: I knew porridge and good morning and thank you and one or two other little expressions, but the point was that we, it … Read more
INT: After that did your parents decide that they had to leave or you had to leave, what happened then KR: Well, they didn’t, yes they decided then, that my uncle in America who had been pleading for them to come and send us, [they] decided that we had to go, my sister and I. … Read more
INT: Today is the 26 February 2015 and I’m here to interview Karola Regent, good afternoon Karola. Could I begin by asking you when you born and where were you born? KR: I was born in Düsseldorf on the 5 December 1925. INT: And what was your name at birth? KR: Well, my surname was … Read more