This feature is currently in the experimental stage. Please do not utilise the following material or provide any links to this content until further notice. To Read the full testimonial of Alice Malcolm published by Gathering the Voices Read the Full Testimonial The Life of Alice Malcolm: From Vienna to Glasgow Alice Malcolm’s story is one of… Continue Reading Alice Malcolm – ai Summary
Susan Singerman was interviewed by Gillian Livingstone in 1988 for the National Life Stories project Living Memory of the Jewish Community. The interview is archived at the British Library (collection reference C410/043) and the recording was previously accessible online via the British Library Sounds website. Many British Library services, including the Sound and Moving Image… Continue Reading Susan Singerman – National Life Stories
Eva Miller is the only child of Richard and Gertrude Kuttner and was born in Berlin. Her mother died in childbirth and her father died in Auschwitz. Eva came to the UK on the Kindertransport and lived with Alf and Doreen Collins and their son in Glasgow. She settled in, married and had three children.… Continue Reading Eva Miller
Eva. Yes. Good afternoon. Int : Good afternoon. Today is the fourth. Yes, of April. Yep. 2024. And I’ve come here to interview yourself, Eva Miller. So Eva, would you like to tell me where you were born, when you were born and what your name was at birth? Eva: Yes. Well, my name was… Continue Reading Eva Miller
Walter was born in 1933 and lived in Munster, Germany. His mother was a professional athlete and ran a sports car which she “loaned” to the Nazi party so she could use it whenever she wanted. His father had an Iron Cross 1st Class from WW1. With the help of a Catholic priest they escaped… Continue Reading Walter Gumprich
Suzanne was born in Budapest. At the start of the war, her parents were in London and they were separated for 7 years. She lived in a “starred house” for Jews for a while with her brothers and grandmother but was saved by being taken to a Wallenberg house. When the Russians invaded, they lived… Continue Reading Suzanne Ullman
Susan was born in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Three months after the Germans occupied Hungary, in June 1944 she and her family were sent by cattle truck to Auschwitz. Chosen to live by the notorious Josef Mengele, Susan was the only member of her family to survive. She describes the horrors of life there and later in… Continue Reading Susan Singerman
Sonja was born in Berlin, where her mother ran a dry cleaning business. Unlike Jewish professionals who lost their jobs in Nazi Germany, her mother was able to work and helped support those who were no longer earning. Her Polish father left for Thailand ending up in Shanghai. Sonja and her mother escaped Germany at… Continue Reading Sonja Hancox
Sidney was born in Landau, Germany. His father owned vineyards. On Kristallnacht his father was arrested and sent to Dachau and the family was forced to move to Mannheim. Sidney was sent to Britain on the Kindertransport but his parents were murdered in Auschwitz. He arrived in Dovercourt where a Glasgow family offered him a… Continue Reading Sidney Mayer
Saskia was born in 1954 in a Displaced Persons camp outside Nuremberg. Her mother, Brigitte, suffered greatly under the Nazis as a Mischling (mixed ancestry), then under the Czechs as a Sudeten German, and finally as a refugee in a DP camp. Despite everything, Saskia and her mother made a life for themselves in Britain… Continue Reading Saskia Tepe