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Martin Anson

Martin Anson – Handwritten Notes

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Martin Anson – Starting Out After The War

So, this we arranged, and this, they were very fair about it, and eventually I took on Agencies, but now I come to my wife. Pat, whom I mentioned, I got to know during the time when I used to go to Augsburg to play in the Jewish Football team. She came to this country… Continue Reading Martin Anson – Starting Out After The War

Martin Anson – Arrival In Glasgow

My uncle in London had managed to get me, to get a job for me, as a trainee waterproof cutter, in a clothing factory in Glasgow. After my uncle emigrated from Germany, he had to study for one more year in Great Britain, to make a British Medical Certificate, which he did in the Glasgow… Continue Reading Martin Anson – Arrival In Glasgow

Martin Anson – Arrest On Kristallnacht And Imprisonment In Dachau Concentration Camp

By the time 1938 came, one began to realise that one would have to emigrate sooner or later, and everybody was looking around for relatives abroad, particularly the United States and so on, where one could find somebody, because, at that time, if it was to the United States, one had to have a guarantee… Continue Reading Martin Anson – Arrest On Kristallnacht And Imprisonment In Dachau Concentration Camp

Martin Anson – Starting Work And Resisting The Rise Of National Socialism

So tell me more about what you did after you finished this school. After I finished school I went to Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main, for two years as an apprentice in a wholesale drapery business, very big wholesale drapery business called “Allman and Rapp” I went to Frankfurt in 1926, by that time I was 17 years… Continue Reading Martin Anson – Starting Work And Resisting The Rise Of National Socialism

Martin Anson – Childhood And School Days

(I WAS BORN)… In a small Bavarian town, called Leutershausen, which was near the town, near the Kreishaupstadt of Mittelf ranken called Ansbach, and my name originally in German, it was Ansbacher, Martin Ansbacher. My father’s name was Gustav Ansbacher, my mother’s name was Babette Ansbacher, and her maiden name was Eckmann. My father was… Continue Reading Martin Anson – Childhood And School Days

Links to Other Testimonies by Martin Anson

Childhood And School Days
Starting Work And Resisting The Rise Of National Socialism
Arrest On Kristallnacht And Imprisonment In Dachau Concentration Camp
Arrival In Glasgow
Starting Out After The War
Handwritten Notes
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