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Gathering the Voices Exhibition

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The Gathering the Voices exhibition will be visiting various venues in the future. We are really looking forward to speaking to those who attend. For information on the exhibition, please visit: https://new.gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition/

UCU@GCU: Event To Mark National Holocaust Memorial Day 2019

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Staff and students are warmly invited to an event at GCU to mark National Holocaust Day 2019, hosted by the GCU branch of the UCU (University and Colleges Union). Dr Angela Shapiro, GCU Honorary Fellow and UCU supporter, will deliver an engaging talk on the theme ‘Torn from home’. The session will encourage us to … Read more

Townhouse to host Gathering the Voices exhibition

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A unique exhibition which keeps alive the stories of Holocaust survivors is coming to North Ayrshire early in the New Year. Gathering the Voices features more than 40 moving stories from men, women and children who were forced to flee their native homes and seek sanctuary in Scotland to escape anti-semitism in Nazi-dominated Europe. The … Read more

Refugees Testimonies on show

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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

‘Scotland has really been very good to me’

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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

Stories From Our Memorable Trip To Germany by Steven and Hilary

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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

Gathering the Voices: A Scottish response to teaching about the Holocaust

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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