Ingrid Wuga awarded Medal of the Order of the British Empire
Her Majesty the Queen has graciously approved the following award for Ingrid Wuga Continue Reading Ingrid Wuga awarded Medal of the Order of the British Empire
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Gathering the Voices Exhibition
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
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… Continue Reading UCU@GCU: Event To Mark National Holocaust Memorial Day 2019
Townhouse to host Gathering the Voices exhibition
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… Continue Reading Townhouse to host Gathering the Voices exhibition
Refugees Testimonies on show
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),… Continue Reading Refugees Testimonies on show
You won’t catch me without a 2CV – by Joe Cent
Recently one of our testimonial contributors to Gathering the Voices Website, Joe Cent was featured in the Daily Record Continue Reading You won’t catch me without a 2CV – by Joe Cent
Friends Reunited After Eighty Years!
On the 2nd of April, 2018 the Gathering the Voices website – received an e-mail from a lady called Sheryl Ross. Continue Reading Friends Reunited After Eighty Years!
‘Scotland has really been very good to me’
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… Continue Reading ‘Scotland has really been very good to me’
Stories From Our Memorable Trip To Germany by Steven and Hilary
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… Continue Reading Stories From Our Memorable Trip To Germany by Steven and Hilary
Gathering the Voices: A Scottish response to teaching about the Holocaust
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… Continue Reading Gathering the Voices: A Scottish response to teaching about the Holocaust