Gathering The Voices Scotland

Testimonies of Holocaust survivors who settled in Scotland

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Hilary Anson

When I married Steve in 1974  I recognised the fact that I was marrying into a family who had lost close relatives and friends because of a regime who believed in racial  Nazi beliefs.

I worked in the family business looking after the office computer system which also included bookkeeping and I have worked as a Primary teacher, both fulltime as well as Supply teaching.

All experiences are valuable in life and by working on the GTV project I’mHilary using my life skills.  What a great way to retire. 

I am so happy to help with this worthwhile project

David Shapiro

I am a semi-retired clinical biochemist who has worked in in hospital laboratories all my career.

Gretl Shapiro, my mother, came to the UK as part of the Kindertransport. She was brought up by Quakers in England and came to Scotland after the war. She had a successful career as a ceramicist.

She was interviewed about her life at the time of the Glasgow Garden Festival and always said that she did not want to be remembered as a victim but as someone who made a successful life for herself in the country that had taken her in. This was a view that was expressed by many of the interviewees in the Gathering the Voices Project, so I hope that we have represented them truly and according to their wishes.