Rita describes the high points in her life and her connection to her past. INT: And once you were older you said you met Dorrith Sim. After that did you meet other people who came on the Kindertransport? What happened with that? RM: Yes I used to go to meetings, Kindertransport meetings, which was nice … Read more
Rita explains why she got a job in a bank despite her lack of knowledge of Scottish banking. She describes how she first met her dear husband through a Christian Youth Centre and their very romantic first encounter. She also explains how she finally discovered her mother’s fate. INT: So tell me about your education. … Read more
Rita describes her new life in Rutherglen, Scotland. She talks about the difficulties and challenges she faced and the impossibility of remaining Jewish in this new environment. INT: And whereabouts in Scotland was that? [Where were you taken?] RM: Rutherglen. INT: Ah, and that’s why you ended up here? RM: That’s it. But I couldn’t … Read more
Rita describes her journey from Germany to Britain and her continuing belief that her mother would be arriving there too. INT: You had escaped from the prisoner of…well the concentration camp, what happened then? RM: I was taken by my aunt to her home and I stayed there a week or so with my cousin … Read more
Rita describes her family background in Hannover, Germany and the night the Nazis arrested her and her mother. She explains how she was able to escape but that her mother did not. INT: Good morning Rita. I’m here to interview Rita McNeill. Rita, could we begin by asking you where you were born? When you … Read more