Gathering The Voices Scotland
Testimonies of Holocaust survivors who settled in Scotland
Presentation from the 2nd Playing the Holocaust discussion hosted by the Digital Holocaust Memory project in 2021. Watch videos from the 1st discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…
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A Holocaust survivor has relived the memory of arriving in Scotland after escaping Nazi Germany to educate school pupils about the Second World War.
Henry Wuga, 98, returned to Glasgow Central Station to share his story with youths.
He joined Poppyscotland and Gathering the Voices to help launch new lessons for Scottish schools, based on his story and that of other young refugees during World War Two.
Mr Wuga escaped Nazi Germany in 1939, aged just 15, leaving his parents behind in Nuremberg, and went to Glasgow on the Kindertransport.
The Jewish refugee made Scotland his home, marrying Ingrid, who also escaped via the Kindertransport, and managing his own catering business.
Read the story on the Daily Record website: Holocaust survivor relives the moment he arrived in Glasgow after fleeing Nazi Germany to educate kids – Daily Record
Food for Thought is a free engaging and informative talk series on research which is relevant to people’s lives followed by dinner and discussion in community venues in North Glasgow.
Community partnership between CPE and Queens Cross Housing Association (QCHA), Social Regeneration Team managed by Jamie Ballantyne. Researchers from across the University have been involved. Between 15 and 30 people usually attend each talk; a combination of tenants and other members of the public from the local community and sometimes from further afield depending on the topic.
Our regular attendees have helped shape the project and the feedback has been really positive.
QCHA’s own social research highlighted stark findingsaround the challenges caused by poverty and inequality. Food for Thought was designed to offer QCHA tenants and the wider community new learning and social experiences to reduce social isolation.
Attendees are offered a hot home cooked nutritious dinner from QCHA’s community café, Flourish House and although they are an evening event, the talks are always in an environment without alcohol to provide an alternative for people. Food for Thought take place from 6.30pm – 8.30pm on the last Thursday of the month over a few months in the academic year in a few QCHA community venues.
Our message is that everyone is welcome along and everyone’s contribution to the discussion is valued.
Henry Wuga and Marion Camrass were interviewed by Angela Shapiro and Claire Singerman for the programme Inside Central Station. Henry talked about his journey on the Kindertransport from Nurnberg to Glasgow. He also gave an insight into his life as a chef and even brought in menus from the 1940’s.
Marion had her audience spellbound as she related her childhood which started in Krakow. Her family fled east into Russia, where they were interned as Poles and sent to a logging camp in Siberia. After they were released from there, they travelled through Kazakhstan and ended up in Uzbekistan for the rest of the war. In 1946, she joined her aunt in Glasgow.
Watch on Sunday 21st November 2021 on BBC Scotland Channel or BBC iPlayer
Judith Rosenberg has recently given a most generous gift to Strathclyde University. Her donation will go towards the creation of the Harold and Judith Rosenberg Chair in Quantum Technology and the Harold and Judith Rosenberg Quantum Technology Laboratories in their honour.
The Harold and Judith Rosenberg Chair in Quantum Technology will be funded for an initial period of five years. However, given the anticipated calibre of the Chair appointment, the post is expected to become self-sustaining in the longer term.
You can listen to and watch to Judith recount her stories – Gathering the Voices Testimonies
During the school year, we had a request to support Auchenharvie Academy with the Holocaust topic within History. We approached Gathering the Voices, a charity whose 6 volunteers have gather testimonies from Holocaust survivors who, after experiencing Anti-Semitic racial persecution, came to settle in Scotland.
