Calderwood Lodge Primary School displayed the Gathering the Voices exhibition in May 2016. To Say thank you for the achievement, we sent the school a thank you certificate. See the picture showing it on display! Visit Calderwood School Website
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has been honoured by her alma mater for her life-long commitment promoting love over hate. Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) graduate Saskia Tepe has been presented with an Alumni Achievement Award. Saskia penned the memoir Surviving Brigitte’s Secrets, which gained international recognition, detailing the gravity of her mother’s wartime experiences, … Read more
The Gathering the Voices team are especially proud that our exhibition was featured at the Scottish National Holocaust Memorial event in Ayr, and was honoured by a personal visit to our display by Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Born in 1933, Francine Christophe was deported with her mother at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. Released the following year, she continues to share her experience and memories, particularly with the younger generations.
As part of the recent exhibition at the Scottish Parliament to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2016, Steven Anson from the Gathering the Voices Association was delighted to present a certificate of recognition to German Consul General Jens-Peter Voss (image on left) recognising the Consulates support of the Gathering the Voices project.
The Gathering the Voices Association are delighted to see the recognition given in the local and national press to the serious game ‘Marion’s Journey’. Great credit goes to the students and graduates of Glasgow Caledonian University for all of their hard work that went into producing the game. You can view a selection of recent … Read more
A story of new Scots on the path from the Holocaust to the Highlands, Jock Tamson’s Bairn comes to Aberdeen’s Tivoli Theatre this November. An original play based on the life of Walter Kress, Holocaust refugee and adopted Aberdonian. His story explores his family’s experience of what it meant to be ‘new’ Scots in 1940s Aberdeen. After … Read more