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# Gathering the Voices

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- [Henry Wuga](https://gatheringthevoices.com/henry-wuga/) - Henry grew up in Nuremberg and trained as a chef. He came to Scotland on the Kindertransport but due to a misunderstanding he was interned as a possible spy on the Isle of Man at age 16. He became the leading chef in the Glasgow Jewish community and received the MBE for work with disabled
- [Myra Levinson](https://gatheringthevoices.com/myra-levinson/) - Myra Levinson (born Myra Benson ) 1928- 2021, mother of Angela Shapiro Myra Levinson (Benson) was born in 1928 in Glasgow and went to the USA, initially for two weeks at the age of 11 but ended up having to stay in the USA for five years. She stayed in Cos Cob in Connecticut, with her aunt and uncle,
- [Saskia Tepe](https://gatheringthevoices.com/saskia-tepe/) - 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
- [Alice Malcolm](https://gatheringthevoices.com/alice-malcolm/) - Alice Malcolm was born in Vienna. She witnessed the rise of the Nazis in Austria as early as 1936, when her mother left her to go to England. She escaped to England and served as a kitchen maid and general help in a grand country house. She ended up in Scotland and became a nurse.
- [George Taylor](https://gatheringthevoices.com/george-taylor/) - George was born in Gilgenburg ( Now in Poland , formerly East Prussia ). His mother came to Glasgow first and then he joined her on the Kindertransport. He travelled from London on his own but his mother went to the wrong station in Glasgow and he had to be rescued by a Yiddish speaking
- [Bob Mackenzie](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie/) - Bob was born in Chemnitz, Germany, of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. He was not brought up Jewish. After his father was sent briefly to a concentration camp, he was sent on the Kindertransport to Scotland. He was brought up by a Scottish family and changed his name to theirs in gratitude. His parents
- [Marion Camrass](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marion-camrass/) - Marion was born into a wealthy family in Krakow. Her family fled the fighting east into Russia, where they were interned as Poles and sent to a logging camp in Siberia. After they were released from there, they travelled through Kazakhstan and ended up in Uzbekistan for the rest of the war. In 1946, she
- [Moniek Garber](https://gatheringthevoices.com/moniek-garber/) - Moniek was born in Wolozin, which was mostly Jewish. By the end of the war, 95% had been killed, including his father. At age 15, Moniek defaced a poster of Stalin and was sent to a concentration camp in Siberia, which saved his life. He then joined the Polish army and travelled widely before settling
- [Esperance David](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david/) - Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Esperance describes life there and the challenge being Jewish brought to her family especially after the rise of Hitler. She speaks about the Farhad, the pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad in 1941. She explains what happened to her Iraqi family in 1948 and thereafter, and her later experiences in Britain.
- [Susan Singerman](https://gatheringthevoices.com/susan-singerman/) - Susan Singerman was born in Székesfehérvár, 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
- [Walter Gumprich](https://gatheringthevoices.com/walter-gumprich/) - 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
- [Sonja Hancox](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sonja-hancox/) - 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
- [Ruth Fraser](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ruth-fraser/) - Ruths' journey took her from Germany to Switzerland, London, Scotland and finally back to Germany. After coming to Glasgow to do war work she married another German refugee in 1945. In 1958 Ruth, her husband and her daughter moved to Hamburg, Germany, where her husband joined his brother who owned a chocolate factory.
- [Rosa Sacharin](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rosa-sacharin/) - Rosa was born in Berlin. She describes the devastating effects of the racial Nuremberg laws on the Jews. She came alone on the first Kindertransport. Amazingly, her mother and sister survived and joined her in Glasgow. She became an eminent paediatric nurse, wrote a widely used textbook, and was happily married to Joe for over
- [Rita McNeill](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rita-mcneill/) - Rita came from Hannover, Germany and was only nine when she and her mother were arrested by the Nazis. Thanks to an aunt, she was released and came to Britain on the Kindertransport. She believed her mother would arrive soon, and did not know the truth of what had happened to her until years later.
- [Renate Mackay](https://gatheringthevoices.com/renate-mackay/) - Renate was born in Cologne in 1931. She talks about her mother's premature death, her father's arrest and the reason she was adopted by her mother's sister and her husband. Her new 'father' was the eminent astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich. Initially she moved with them to Turkey and then Prague. Then she came to Scotland
- [Pat Anson](https://gatheringthevoices.com/pat-anson/) - Pat (Beate) was born in 1916 in Kriegshaber, Bavaria, Germany and lived a normal village life with loving parents who were cattle dealers. After Kristallnacht, her parents sent her to Bradford in Yorkshire where she worked as a children's nanny. After being interned on the Isle of Man, Pat worked in a clothing factory before
- [Marianne Laszlo](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-laszlo/) - Marianne was born in Hungary. When the war came her family was sent to Vienna as slave labourers. She worked to clear the roads from snow and debris from bombs. She stayed in Hungary and married, but had to escape after the 1956 uprising. She moved round the country as her doctor husband had several
- [Lore Lucas](https://gatheringthevoices.com/lore-lucas/) - Lore actually came to Britain twice, in 1936 and just before the war. Her sister had arrived earlier but unfortunately she and her mother went back to Holland to join her father the day war broke out and were trapped. She never saw them again. Lore did war work and married during the war. This
- [Ike Gibson](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ike-gibson/) - Ike, born in Hamburg, came from a very religious family. He remembered little of his journey to Britain on the Kindertransport. Once in the UK he quickly integrated. He describes his experiences in the Queen's Scouts and in National Service. Ike became an academic specialising in bacterial and viral genetics. He fulfilled a life's ambition
- [Halina Moss](https://gatheringthevoices.com/halina-moss/) - Halina was born into a politically active family in Warsaw in 1929. Her father was a Bundist and imprisoned by the Tsar along with Trotsky's wife. Her family escaped to Russia and ended up in Siberia in extreme conditions. After the war she came to Glasgow and trained as a science teacher but changed to
- [Frieda Laird](https://gatheringthevoices.com/frieda-laird/) - Frieda's father was a baker and she lived on a farm. Aged 18, she came to the UK as a domestic but lost all her family. She had a difficult marriage and had to raise 5 children on her own. She worked as a pedlar round Glasgow.
- [Fred Weiss](https://gatheringthevoices.com/fred-weiss/) - FRIEDRICH (Fridyes in Hungarian) LOTHAR WEISS, better known as Fred Weiss, was born in Miskolc in Hungary on May 23rd 1921. He lived most of his adult life in Glasgow, Scotland and epitomised the ideal of how a poor young refugee could make good by hard work and strong will.
- [Eva Miller](https://gatheringthevoices.com/eva-miller/) - 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.
- [Edith Forrester](https://gatheringthevoices.com/edith-forrester/) - Edith was born in Nordhausen, Germany. She describes what happened when the Gestapo arrived at her home and arrested her father. She speaks of her departure from her family when she joined the Kindertransport and her mother's failure to escape. She emphasises her love of Britain, her pride in being Jewish and her Christian faith.
- [Bob Kutner](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-kutner/) - Bob was born in Germany into a Polish Jewish family. They moved to France and then Italy after Hitler came to power in 1933. There, Bob helped his brother spy for France. His brother was caught but not Bob. He escaped as a tourist to England where he joined the army and became an interrogator
- [Suzanne Ullman](https://gatheringthevoices.com/suzanne-ullman/) - 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
- [Judith Rosenberg](https://gatheringthevoices.com/judith-rosenberg-2/) - Judith, born in Hungary, survived Auschwitz with her mother and was later liberated by the Americans.
- [Gerda Fulton (Grunewald)](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gerda-fulton-grunewald/) - Gerda Fulton, born in Germany in 1919, fled to the UK in 1939, parents perished in Auschwitz. She was later dispersed to Glasgow by the Jewish Committee.
- [John J Crosbie](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-j-crosbie/) - John was a Scottish Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery who was haunted by his experience of being part of the British Forces which entered Belsen Concentration Camp in April 1945. In his memoir he describes the horrors he saw. The situation was chaotic. Hundreds of Jewish internees were dying every day and over 10,000 bodies
- [Isi Metzstein](https://gatheringthevoices.com/isi-metzstein/) - Born in Berlin, Isi describes watching the synagogue adjacent to his school burning on Kristallnacht, while a crowd of local people stood by enjoying what was happening. He reached Scotland in 1939, first living in Hardgate and then in a hostel in Skelmorlie. He explains how he became a world renowned architect and reflects on
- [Joe Cent](https://gatheringthevoices.com/joe-cent/) - Joe was born in France in 1937 to Polish parents. After the Nazis invaded France in 1940, his father, who was in the Polish army, managed to take his family to safety in Britain. He became an engineer and later worked as a tour manager taking groups to Communist countries. Read More
- [John Mackay](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-mackay-2/) - John Stewart MacKay, a Scottish soldier who married a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, had a truly remarkable life. He describes his army experiences as a commando in great detail including the attack on Tobruk. Then he explains how he and his friend escaped from an Italian prisoner of war camp and speaks of the Italian families
- [John Subak Sharpe](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-subak-sharpe/) - Professor Subak Sharpe was born in Vienna. He came on the Kindertransport. He was originally placed as a farmer's boy because he was regarded as not worth educating but ran away to the army. After the war he studied genetics and later switched to virology. He became director of the Institute of Virology in Glasgow
- [Karola Regent](https://gatheringthevoices.com/karola-regent/) - Karola (Hannah) was born in Dusseldorf in 1925. She describes the horror of Kristallnacht in her parent's flat with the Nazis being "...the fanatic horde of raving animals...smashing and slashing". She and her sister escaped on the last Kindertransport. Sadly, her parents did not survive. In 2003 her primary school was renamed in her honour
- [Kathy Hagler](https://gatheringthevoices.com/kathy-hagler/) - Kathy was born in Hungary in 1942. Her father was taken away when she was one year old and she and her mother were taken to the Munkacs ghetto in 1944. She was smuggled out to her grandmother's in Budapest just before the ghetto was liquidated. She emigrated to Israel in 1959 and stayed on
- [Leo Metzstein](https://gatheringthevoices.com/leo-metzstein/) - Leo, one of five children born in Berlin, came to Scotland with two siblings on the Kindertransport (see Isi Metzstein, his brother). His father, a Communist, was killed in 1933. He first lived with a Quaker family, then in a hostel in Skelmorlie. Failing his "11 Plus" exam by one mark meant that he did
- [Marianne Grant](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-grant/) - Marianne was born in Prague. Her daughter, Geraldine, speaks of her mother's comfortable life, her love of art, which eventually helped her to survive, and the German invasion in 1939. Two years later Marianne and her mother were sent to Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz, later to a slave labour camp and finally to Bergen-Belsen, where
- [Martin Anson](https://gatheringthevoices.com/martin-anson/) - Martin was born in 1909 in Leutershausen, Bavaria, Germany. The town became very anti-Jewish in the early 1920s. He describes his activities in the anti-Nazi movement Reichsbanner and their fight to keep Germany democratic. In great detail Martin describes the Stormtroopers assaulting the family on Kristallnacht and his imprisonment in Dachau, before managing to emigrate
- [Sidney Mayer](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sidney-mayer/) - 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
- [Dany Metzstein](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dany-metzstein/) - Dany Metzstein (Danielle Kahn) was born in Montpellier, France in 1942. Her parents were in hiding and her father was involved with the Maquis. They survived the war in France, but after her father died, Dany had to stay in an orphanage and then a boarding school. She came to live in Motherwell, Scotland with
- [Dorothea Brander](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorothea-brander/) - Dorothea was born in Berlin. Her father was a chemist and was sent to work in Istanbul to escape from Germany. She describes her life in Turkey. Her brother organised support for non-Nazi Germans who were interned during the war in villages by the Turks. Dorothea married on V.E. Day and came to Glasgow, which
- [Dorrith M. Sim](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorrith-m-sim/) - Dorrith was born in Kassel, Germany. She witnessed Kristallnacht, when her own home was vandalised, so her parents decided she should go to Britain on the Kindertransport. She describes how she taught herself English by saying everything was "in my pocket" and wrote a children's book with that name on the experience of being a
- [Erna Grace](https://gatheringthevoices.com/erna-grace/) - Erna Grace (Rabner) was born in Dortmund, Germany in 1930. Erna came on the Kindertransport when she was only eight years old. She had diphtheria while living in the reception camp in Harwich. She was taken in by Nurse Livingstone and her family In Glasgow with whom she lived with till she married. Sadly, she
- [Eva Szirmai](https://gatheringthevoices.com/eva-szirmai/) - Eva was an apprentice photographer in Budapest but could not be fully trained because she was Jewish. She lived in constant danger of deportation under the Nazis and her mother barely escaped. Eventually they lived in the ghetto, which by chance saved their lives. She then lived in Communist Hungary until her husband, who was
- [Evelyn Strang](https://gatheringthevoices.com/evelyn-strang/) - Evelyn was born in Leipzig in 1933. Evelyn and her mother were deported to Poland in 1938 but managed to escape to Britain as her father had set up a factory. Her Polish grandparents did not survive. The other grandparents lived in Berlin throughout the war. Her father set up a furrier's business in Glasgow.
- [Gretl Shapiro](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gretl-shapiro/) - Gretl was born in Vienna and had a happy childhood until the Nazis came. She was sponsored by the Quakers to come on the Kindertransport to England, where her sister was working as a domestic. She originally stayed in Coventry but was evacuated several times because of the Blitz. She became an entomologist and moved
- [Ingrid Wuga](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ingrid-wuga/) - "... I will never, never forget waving goodbye to my parents when I was on the train and they were on the platform running along." In 1939, Ingrid came to Britain on the Kindertransport from Germany. Her parents did manage to escape and the family were reunited in Scotland. She married Henry (see his testimony)
- [Game focusing on realities of the holocaust wins award](https://gatheringthevoices.com/game-focusing-on-realities-of-the-holocaust-wins-award/) - A game created by Glasgow Caledonian graduates has won a top gaming award during Scottish Games Week. Marion’s Journey, a redesigned educational computer game focusing on the harsh realities of the Holocaust won the Creativity Award at the Scottish Games Awards, which are organised by the Scottish Games Network. The game is an interactive story tailored to the oral testimony
- [Playing the Holocaust II with Angela and Brian](https://gatheringthevoices.com/playing-the-holocaust-ii-with-angela-and-brian/) - Presentation from the 2nd Playing the Holocaust discussion hosted by the Digital Holocaust Memory project in 2021. Watch videos from the 1st discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... For more content from the Digital Holocaust Memory project: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalh...
- [Holocaust survivor relives the moment he arrived in Glasgow after fleeing Nazi Germany to educate kids](https://gatheringthevoices.com/holocaust-survivor-relives-the-moment-he-arrived-in-glasgow-after-fleeing-nazi-germany-to-educate-kids/) - A Holocaust survivor has relived the memory of arriving in Scotland after escaping Nazi Germany to educate school pupils about the Second World War. Henry Wuga, 98, returned to Glasgow Central Station to share his story with youths. He joined Poppyscotland and Gathering the Voices to help launch new lessons for Scottish schools, based on his story
- [Dr Angela Shapiro presents to the Queens Cross Housing Association](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dr-angela-shapiro-presents-to-the-queens-cross-housing-association/) - Food for Thought is a free engaging and informative talk series on research which is relevant to people’s lives followed by dinner and discussion in community venues in North Glasgow. Community partnership between CPE and Queens Cross Housing Association (QCHA), Social Regeneration Team managed by Jamie Ballantyne. Researchers from across the University have been involved.
- [Gathering the Voices featured on BBC Scotland's Inside Central Station](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gathering-the-voices-featured-on-bbc-scotlands-inside-central-station/) - Henry Wuga and Marion Camrass were interviewed by Angela Shapiro and Claire Singerman for the programme Inside Central Station. Henry talked about his journey on the Kindertransport from Nurnberg to Glasgow. He also gave an insight into his life as a chef and even brought in menus from the 1940’s. Marion had her audience spellbound
- [Judith Rosenberg - Scotland’s last Auschwitz survivor leaves £500,000 gift to Strathclyde University](https://gatheringthevoices.com/judith-rosenberg-scotlands-last-auschwitz-survivor-leaves-500000-gift-to-strathclyde-university/) - Judith Rosenberg has recently given a most generous gift to Strathclyde University. Her donation will go towards the creation of the Harold and Judith Rosenberg Chair in Quantum Technology and the Harold and Judith Rosenberg Quantum Technology Laboratories in their honour. The Harold and Judith Rosenberg Chair in Quantum Technology will be funded for an
- [Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce Spring 2021](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ayrshire-chamber-of-commerce-spring-2021/) - During the school year, we had a request to support Auchenharvie Academy with the Holocaust topic within History. We approached Gathering the Voices, a charity whose 6 volunteers have gather testimonies from Holocaust survivors who, after experiencing Anti-Semitic racial persecution, came to settle in Scotland.
- [Letter from the Scottish Government](https://gatheringthevoices.com/letter-from-the-scottish-government/) - Recently, Gathering the Voices shared the video Martin Anson with Ms. Aileen Campbell, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government.
- [Video of refugee's life story made available to schools](https://gatheringthevoices.com/video-of-refugees-life-story-made-available-to-schools/) - Gathering the Voices has made a video telling the story of German refugee Martin Anson journey to finding a new home in Scotland, with Education Scotland agreeing to promote the video to Scottish schools.
- [Jewish Museum Berlin](https://gatheringthevoices.com/jewish-museum-berlin/) - The Anson family is pleased to report that memorabilia from Steven's late father Martin Ansbacher (Anson) is now being featured in the just opened and remodeled Core Exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB). https://www.jmberlin.de/en/opening-new-core-exhibition Here are photographs of the exhibits featured, and an explanation of what is represented. The first photograph of the group
- [Bob MacKenzie Facebook Interview](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie-facebook-interview/) - On Sunday 26th April, Holocaust survivor Bob MacKenzie participated in a live phonecall interview on Facebook Live with Laura Pasternak, a Holocaust Educational Trust Regional Ambassador for Scotland.
- [Food for Thought](https://gatheringthevoices.com/food-for-thought/) - Queens Cross and Glasgow Caledonian University have joined up to host a new series of free talks where people can learn and debate with experts about important subjects in local community venues. Find out more by attending Food for thought, Thursday 27th February, Windsor Community Hall.
- [Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series](https://gatheringthevoices.com/holocaust-memorial-lecture-series/) - Glasgow University has kindly agreed to link their website of Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series with the Gathering the Voices website. Every year these lectures are over-subscribed. The Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series was initiated in 2001 by Professor Bernard Wasserstein and Emeritus Professor Otto Hutter, and has since become a key fixture in the University's event
- [East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire’s 2020 Holocaust Memorial Day Event](https://gatheringthevoices.com/east-renfrewshire-and-renfrewshires-2020-holocaust-memorial-day-event/) - Howard Singerman, one of the founder members of Gathering the Voices, was the keynote speaker at East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire’s 2020 Holocaust Memorial Day event, which this year was commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
- [Saskia Tepe in Southern Arizona](https://gatheringthevoices.com/saskia-tepe-in-southern-arizona/) - On 5th December, and 9th and 26th January I spoke at three separate 55+ communities in Southern Arizona, to a total of over 150 residents ranging in age from 55 to 80, in order to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and introduce the concept and aims of International Holocaust Memorial Day.
- [75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz](https://gatheringthevoices.com/75th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-auschwitz/) - Today, The 27th January 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, which was liberated by the Red Army.
- [Judith Rosenberg](https://gatheringthevoices.com/judith-rosenberg/) - Auschwitz survivor: 'There was no life. We were starving' Judith Rosenberg was 22 when she was put on a cramped train with her Jewish family in the spring of 1944. Together they were transported from Gyor in their native Hungary to Poland where they were immediately split up.
- [Update from Gathering the Voices](https://gatheringthevoices.com/our-recent-news/) - Gathering the Voices has presented/exhibited at over 90 locations since we commenced this Refugee and Holocaust Testimony project in 2012. We have presented to over 11,000 Scottish pupils and to over 2,000 teachers, lecturers, students and adults. In addition, over 20,000 pupils and 22,000 adults have viewed our unique exhibition.
- [Ingrid Wuga awarded Medal of the Order of the British Empire](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ingrid-wuga-awarded-medal-of-the-order-of-the-british-empire/) - Her Majesty the Queen has graciously approved the following award for Ingrid Wuga
- [Gathering the Voices Exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/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](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ucugcu-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
- [Townhouse to host Gathering the Voices exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/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
- [Refugees Testimonies on show](https://gatheringthevoices.com/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),
- [You won't catch me without a 2CV - by Joe Cent](https://gatheringthevoices.com/you-wont-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
- [Friends Reunited After Eighty Years!](https://gatheringthevoices.com/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.
- ['Scotland has really been very good to me'](https://gatheringthevoices.com/scotland-really-good/) - 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
- [Stories From Our Memorable Trip To Germany by Steven and Hilary](https://gatheringthevoices.com/stories-memorable-trip-germany-steven-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
- [Gathering the Voices: A Scottish response to teaching about the Holocaust](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gathering-voices-scottish-response-teaching-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
- [Calderwood Lodge Primary School](https://gatheringthevoices.com/calderwood-lodge-primary-school/) - 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
- [GCU recognises inspirational alumna Saskia Tepe](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gcu-recognises-inspirational-alumna-saskia-tepe/) - 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,
- [Honoured by the First Minister of Scotland](https://gatheringthevoices.com/honoured-by-the-first-minister-of-scotland/) - 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.
- [Francine Christophe Shares Her Experiences And Memories](https://gatheringthevoices.com/francine-christophe-shares-her-experiences-and-memories/) - 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.
- [Scottish Parliament - Photographs From The Exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/scottish-parliament-photographs-from-the-exhibition/) - 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.
- [Press Coverage Of 'Marion's Journey' Serious Game](https://gatheringthevoices.com/press-coverage-of-marions-journey-serious-game/) - 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
- [JOCK TAMSON'S BAIRN](https://gatheringthevoices.com/jock-tamsons-bairn/) - 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

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- [Homepage](https://gatheringthevoices.com/) - Discover Holocaust survivor testimonies from Scotland. Oral histories, educational resources, interactive maps, podcasts, and refugee stories.
- [Myra Levinson](https://gatheringthevoices.com/myra-levinson/) - Myra Levinson (born Myra Benson) 1928- 2021 Myra Levinson (Benson) was born in 1928 in Glasgow and went to the USA, initially for two weeks at the age of 11 but ended up having to stay in the USA for five years. She stayed in Cos Cob in Connecticut, with her aunt and uncle, one
- [Testimonies](https://gatheringthevoices.com/testimonies/) - Trace the journeys of Holocaust survivors who found sanctuary in Scotland. Explore our interactive map to read, listen, and watch their first-hand testimonies.
- [Annual Review and Accounts](https://gatheringthevoices.com/annual-review-and-accounts/) - About us The report and accounts set out our key achievements and the accounts for the year. Documents are in PDF format, you may require to download Adobe Reader 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 PDF of 2019 Accounts PDF of 2020 Accounts PDF of 2021 Accounts PDF of 2022 Accounts PDF of 2023 Accounts
- [Interactive Exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/interactive-exhibition/) - Explore the interactive digital exhibition by Gathering the Voices. Discover the powerful testimonies and journeys of Holocaust refugees who escaped to Scotland.
- [Renate's Book Of Letters](https://gatheringthevoices.com/renates-book-of-letters/) - Letter: 1 - Professor FW Dyson, Astronomer Royal, who was important in proving Einstein’s theory of relativity. Letter: 2 - Prof Herbert Dingle, Astronomer and opponent of Einstein. Letter: 3 - Prof EA Milne, astrophysicist at Oxford University who worked on implications of the theory of relativity. Letter 4 in German - Prof Albert Einstein,
- [Enlarged Pictures of Exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/enlarged-pictures-of-exhibition/) - The pictures below, when clicked on, will present a panorama view of all the panels of the exhibition. In order to view the wording clearly, please hover over the area of the picture to read the text.
- [About Gathering the Voices](https://gatheringthevoices.com/about-gathering-the-voices/) - Contributions Front row, left to right:- Claire and Howard Singerman (GVA – Gathering the Voices Association), Vice Chancellor & Principal, Professor Pamela Gillies CBE (Glasgow Caledonian University), Angela Shapiro, Hilary and Steven Anson (GVA). Back row, left to right:- Stewart Maxwell (MSP), Duncan Cameron (Riverside Music Complex), David Shapiro (GVA), Heinrich Schnettger (German Consul, Edinburgh).
- [Testiomonies AtoZ](https://gatheringthevoices.com/testiomonies-atoz/)
- [Alice Malcolm - ai Summary](https://gatheringthevoices.com/alice-malcolm-testimony-ai/) - Discover the story of Alice Malcolm, a Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi Vienna, survived the Blitz, and became a beloved midwife ("Sister Levi") in Glasgow.
- [Alice Malcolm - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/alice-malcolm-integration/) - Alice explains how she came to live in Glasgow. She then talks about her career in nursing. Finally she describes meeting her husband and tells the interviewer about her family. AM: Well I stayed there in domestic service for a while. In that… during that time the people my mother was working for in Northwood,
- [Kathy Hagler - Life In Budapest Post WWII](https://gatheringthevoices.com/kathy-hagler-life-in-budapest-post-wwii/) - KH: I grew up in Budapest with my granny and my aunt. At the age of sixteen my granny, my aunt and I were allowed to leave the country and go to Israel where I lived until I came to Scotland when I was…I think thirty-five when I arrived in Scotland. INT: So tell me a
- [Kathy Hagler - Life In Israel](https://gatheringthevoices.com/kathy-hagler-life-in-israel/) - Kathy and her granny were allowed to leave Hungary and decided to emigrate to Israel. Kathy wanted to remain in Hungary to finish her education but that was not possible. In the beginning, aged 16 she worked in a factory, which she hated. She moved to live on a Kibbutz, which she loved from the
- [Kathy Hagler - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/kathy-hagler-reflection-on-life/) - KH: Hungary is a horribly anti-Semitic country, always has been, still is today. INT: Yeah. KH: And today it’s getting worse and worse. INT: And your second cousin carried on living in Hungary? KH: Oh yes, I have four second cousins in Hungary. INT: Oh right. KH: My granny’s sister had two daughters as well. INT: Yeah. KH: And one of them had a
- [Leo Metzstein - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/leo-metzstein-life-before-the-war/) - INT: Today is the 26th of July 2013 and we're here to interview Leo Metzstein. Leo, can I begin by asking you when you were born? Where were you born? And were you always called Leo Metzstein? LM: Yes I was born on the 27th of July 1932 in Berlin and I was always named
- [Leo Metzstein - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/leo-metzstein-life-during-the-war/) - INT: And how did you come? Was it a train and boat or...? LM: Well yes it was a very strange arrangement. I'd never been out of the street you might say and suddenly we're told, I remember this my mother said "C'mon, we're going" and I had a wee parcel or something and my
- [Leo Metzstein - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/leo-metzstein-settling-in/) - INT: And how was it that you then left? What happened after the four and a half years? LM: Ah what happened was they needed the house for some reason for WAAC's, or RAAC'S or one of the women's naval organisations and they found another place in Castle Douglas, Ernespie house, which was an old
- [Leo Metzstein - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/leo-metzstein-reflection-on-life/) - INT: If you look back now on your time in Scotland, what would you say are the high points in your life? LM: Well one of the highest points, definitely, about 30 odd years ago I used to go dancing, not dancing, I was no dancer, I liked traditional jazz and there was only one
- [Lore Lucas - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/lore-lucas-life-before-the-war/) - INT: The date is Sunday the 29th of August 2010 and this is an interview with Mrs. Lore Lucas in Glasgow. Mrs. Lucas can you tell us when and where were you were born? LL: In Germany, in Krefeld; K-R-E-F-E-L-D INT: And was, what was your name at birth? LL: Lindenbaum INT: Ah right, this
- [Lore Lucas - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/lore-lucas-life-during-the-war/) - INT2: Can I just ask, when did you actually come? What year did you come? LL: ‘38 INT2: So did you come under the Kindertransport? LL: No, it’s ’36! INT2: ’36 you came? LL: ’36. I came later on again INT2: Right INT: So, in Leamington Spa where did you stay and who with? LL:
- [Lore Lucas - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/lore-lucas-settling-in/) - INT: Alright and when you arrived in Scotland, when did you come to Scotland? LL: I came INT: What age were you? LL: 26 INT: 26 years old? LL: Yes INT: Yes. How did you get to Scotland and why did you come here? LL: I was in London and I got married in Scotland
- [Lore Lucas - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/lore-lucas-integration/) - INT: I’m asking about your social life when you were in London? LL: Yes, it was very pleasant. INT: Mainly Jewish? Or non-Jewish? LL: Mostly Jewish, there was the odd non-Jewish one. I wasn’t selective but it happened to be. INT: So what kind of things did you do? LL: We mainly went to each
- [Lore Lucas - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/lore-lucas-reflection-on-life/) - INT: Can you tell me something just as it occurs to me about your, all the years that you’ve lived in Scotland, did you, have you experienced any anti-Semitism? LL: No. Really and truly not. I mean there is underlying anti-Semitism everywhere, this I know INT: And what about being involved in the community. Were
- [Marianne Lazlo - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-lazlo-life-before-the-war/) - Marianne describes her family background. INT: Marianne? ML: Yes? INT: Thank you for agreeing to talk to me this afternoon. Tell me about yourself; where you were born and what life was like before the war. ML: Well I was born in Hungary; Debrecen was the name of the city I was born in. Hungary
- [Marianne Lazlo - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-lazlo-life-during-the-war/) - Marianne describes what happened to her and her family when the Germans invaded Hungary. She speaks about the ghettos set up in her town and her time in the local brickworks before being put into cattle wagons. She goes on to explain that she and her family were selected to work in Austria, though many
- [Marianne Lazlo - Liberation](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-lazlo-liberation/) - Marianne describes the arrival of the Red Army and the flight of the German guards. She explains that her father then decided to bring the family home to Hungary. They returned, dirty and covered in fleas to find their house looted and empty. They began to rebuild their lives. INT: Tell me about the liberation
- [Marianne Lazlo - Life In Hungary After The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-lazlo-life-in-hungary-after-the-war/) - Marianne discusses how her life returned to something closer to normal. She describes her education both at school and at university. She then goes on to speak about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the decision that she and her new husband made to leave Hungary. INT: How long did it take until you got
- [Marianne Lazlo - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-lazlo-immigration/) - Marianne gives a vivid description of leaving Hungary without passports and just the clothes that she and her husband were wearing. She explains what happened to them when they arrived in Austria and why they were given permission to come to Britain. Her positive feelings on arrival in Britain are clearly evident. ML: And then
- [Marianne Lazlo - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-lazlo-integration/) - Marianne describes her first jobs. Then she goes on to talk about arriving in Edinburgh where her three children were born. She explains that she loved Edinburgh from the start and thought it was ‘something out of this world’. She talks about the historic links between Scotland and Hungary and her children’s integration into Scottish
- [Marianne Lazlo - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-lazlo-reflection-on-life/) - Marianne talks about the effect her experiences have had on her. She explains why she is glad she came to Scotland and did not go to America, as her sisters did. Finally Marianne explains why she is now finally free of ‘her Holocaust’. INT: That’s a lovely story. And looking back over your life are
- [Marion Camrass - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marion-camrass-life-before-the-war/) - Marion’s story begins in Poland in 1932 when she was born into a wealthy family in Krakow. As a child during the Second World War she fled the fighting by travelling into Soviet Russia and eventually to Siberia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In 1946 she joined her aunt in Glasgow where she completed her school education,
- [Marion Camrass - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marion-camrass-life-during-the-war/) - Marion’s family fled from the German army when it attacked western Poland in September 1939. They reached the Russian Zone in eastern Poland but were sent to Siberia as suspected enemy aliens. When war between the Soviet Union and Germany began in the summer of 1941 the family were allowed to leave their Siberian camp
- [Marion Camrass - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marion-camrass-settling-in/) - Marion describes her new life in Glasgow after the end of the war. She learned English and attended Laurel Bank School INT: And they [the school] gave you special support did they at the time? MC: And they were very kind and very good so that after three years at school, well I arrived in
- [Marion Camrass - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marion-camrass-immigration/) - At the end of the war Marion’s mother went back to Poland and Marion eventually came to Scotland. M: My aunt came to London to meet the transport of children that Doctor Schonfeld brought from Poland. INT: So sorry can you go back a wee bit and say who was Doctor Schonfeld? M: Well Rabbi
- [Marion Camrass - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marion-camrass-integration/) - Read the Transcript M: Oh well , well those were quite different days, I stayed when I finished school I was accepted for university to do Medicine because my Highers were pretty good. INT: Absolutely. M: I stayed in the Women's Hostel which was number one Lilybank Terrace. INT: Right. M: Laurel Bank was number
- [Marion Camrass - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marion-camrass-reflection-on-life/) - Marion tells of the importance of remembering her roots and her Polish family, but she feels that her Scottish children and grandchildren have given her enormous joy. This section of the interview was carried out in February 2014. INT: Right, so one of the things we always do on reflection is ask about the nice
- [Martin Anson - Childhood And School Days](https://gatheringthevoices.com/martin-anson-childhood-and-school-days/) - (I WAS BORN)... In a small Bavarian town, called Leutershausen, which was near the town, near the Kreishaupstadt of Mittelf ranken called Ansbach, and my name originally in German, it was Ansbacher, Martin Ansbacher. My father's name was Gustav Ansbacher, my mother's name was Babette Ansbacher, and her maiden name was Eckmann. My father was
- [Martin Anson - Starting Work And Resisting The Rise Of National Socialism](https://gatheringthevoices.com/martin-anson-starting-work-and-resisting-the-rise-of-national-socialism/) - So tell me more about what you did after you finished this school. After I finished school I went to Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main, for two years as an apprentice in a wholesale drapery business, very big wholesale drapery business called "Allman and Rapp" I went to Frankfurt in 1926, by that time I was 17 years
- [Martin Anson - Arrest On Kristallnacht And Imprisonment In Dachau Concentration Camp](https://gatheringthevoices.com/martin-anson-arrest-on-kristallnacht-and-imprisonment-in-dachau-concentration-camp/) - By the time 1938 came, one began to realise that one would have to emigrate sooner or later, and everybody was looking around for relatives abroad, particularly the United States and so on, where one could find somebody, because, at that time, if it was to the United States, one had to have a guarantee
- [Martin Anson - Arrival In Glasgow](https://gatheringthevoices.com/martin-anson-arrival-in-glasgow/) - My uncle in London had managed to get me, to get a job for me, as a trainee waterproof cutter, in a clothing factory in Glasgow. After my uncle emigrated from Germany, he had to study for one more year in Great Britain, to make a British Medical Certificate, which he did in the Glasgow
- [Martin Anson - Starting Out After The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/martin-anson-starting-out-after-the-war/) - So, this we arranged, and this, they were very fair about it, and eventually I took on Agencies, but now I come to my wife. Pat, whom I mentioned, I got to know during the time when I used to go to Augsburg to play in the Jewish Football team. She came to this country
- [Moniek Garber - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/moniek-garber-life-before-the-war/) - INT: Good evening. Today is the 12th of September 2012 and I'm here to interview Moniek Garber. Good evening. Moniek, can I ask you about your very early days? Could you tell me please what your name was at birth, where you were born? MG: Yes my name at birth was Moishe INT: And when
- [Moniek Garber - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/moniek-garber-life-during-the-war/) - INT: And the rest of your town, what happened to them? The 80%? MG: I would say 95% were probably executed.INT: Right. MG: In two actions. I don't remember the details actually. My cousin was particularly interested in this MG: Yes. It's not just himself; several people took part in it. So, some people did
- [Moniek Garber - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/moniek-garber-immigration/) - Then in 1945, just two/three months after the war, the Polish government sent me to Oxford. So I was escorted to the commanding officer's office and told to pack my kit bag and off to England. INT: To go to Oxford University? MG: Yes. INT: Why you? MG: This is a letter from my commanding
- [Moniek Garber - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/moniek-garber-settling-in/) - MG:I then went to London and wrote to London University, sat an entrance exam and got through and then I realised that my one thousand and something pounds was not going to stretch to take a degree so then I got a job in Bradford, again in textiles which wasn't very much. Then I got
- [Moniek Garber - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/moniek-garber-reflection-on-life/) - INT: One of the very interesting things as well which I think happened Moniek, was the fact of your family being traced. MG: Oh yes. INT: Yes. MG: This was. I didn't know what had happened to my family and I actually tried to keep a low profile on the basis that if any of
- [Pat Anson - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/pat-anson-life-before-the-war/) - I was born on the 9th December 1916 in Kreigshaber which is on the outskirts of Augsburg, (Bavaria, Germany). We lived in a very spacious villa. We lived on the first floor and Lee (Fischer ) and her parents lived on the ground floor. My parents were very loving well adjusted people and in our
- [Pat Anson - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/pat-anson-life-during-the-war/) - We had the same job in the household. We were in interned (in the Isle of Man) together. After the internment we both worked in the same factory sharing the same room until Irene and I got married we both were continuously together and we really were good friends which helped tremendously to have always
- [Pat Anson - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/pat-anson-immigration/) - I went to Bradford first to secure the job. Irene’s papers weren’t quite ready so she came 6 weeks afterwards. I still remember, I had never crossed the Channel of course. I went with the train to Holland and then with the boat over to Dover, then to London. In London some of those committee
- [Pat Anson - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/pat-anson-settling-in/) - The food on the Isle of Man was very British which our landlady cooked – we were all dying for potato salad. Whenever we had to peel the potatoes we kind of pinched one or two potatoes and put them inside the gramophone and when our landlady went for the day to Douglas we took
- [Pat Anson - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/pat-anson-reflection-on-life/) - All in all I must say I have been extremely lucky. People have been enormously friendly, even when we worked and more work and things were rationed people would invite us to share their meals in their houses when food and everything was very, very short. There was never any word of being the enemy
- [Renate Mackay - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/renate-mackay-life-before-the-war/) - Renate describes her family background. She talks about her mother’s premature death, her father’s arrest and the reason she was adopted by her mother’s sister and her husband. Her new ‘father’ was the eminent astronomer, Erwin Finlay Freundlich, and she soon found herself joining him and her aunt, first in Turkey and then Prague. INT: Today
- [Renate Mackay - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/renate-mackay-immigration/) - Renate explains that her father was in St Andrews in Scotland being interviewed for a job on the day the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. Renate then talks about Lawrie Wardale, the man she calls her “Scarlet Pimpernel,” who brought her and her family to safety in St Andrews in Scotland. INT: So, eventually you had to leave,
- [Renate Mackay - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/renate-mackay-settling-in/) - Renate describes her experiences as a schoolgirl in St Andrews’s. INT: Now let’s just take you to St Andrews, Renate. They must have been very pleased to have your uncle because he’d come from such a prestigious position as Director of the Einstein Tower in Potsdam. Tell us about what happened when you got there. RM: Well,
- [Renate Mackay - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/renate-mackay-integration/) - Renate talks about her career in nursing. She describes the coincidences that led to her meeting her first husband, Fred Goldschmidt. INT: And at the end of school you decided to become a nurse, am I right in saying? RM: Yes, well, my older brother, who had gone to University at a time when a lot of
- [Renate Mackay - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/renate-mackay-reflection-on-life/) - Renate talks about her love of Scottish scenery. She then tells the interviewers about her children and grandchildren. INT: I know that your life took on many twists and turns after that but we have to come to a close and ask you a couple more questions. If you look back now on your time in
- [Rita McNeill - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rita-mcneill-life-before-the-war/) - 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
- [Rita McNeill - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rita-mcneill-immigration/) - Interview Transcript Interviewer: You had escaped from the prisoner of…well the concentration camp, what happened then? Rita McNeill: I was taken by my aunt to her home and I stayed there a week or so with my cousin and then I was put on a train to come over here. And they kept saying, “Your
- [Rita McNeill - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rita-mcneill-settling-in/) - 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
- [Rita McNeill - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rita-mcneill-integration/) - 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.
- [Rita McNeill - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rita-mcneill-reflection-on-life/) - 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
- [Rosa Sacharin - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rosa-sacharin-life-before-the-war/) - INT: Right. Good morning. This is Friday the 21st of September and I'm here to interview Rosa Sacharin. Rosa would you like to start off by telling me when you were born, where you were born and your name at birth? RS: I was born in Berlin in Germany on the 23rd of March 1925.
- [Rosa Sacharin - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rosa-sacharin-immigration/) - INT: And where did you arrive in England? Which port? RS: We arrived in Harwich and were taken by bus when I came off the boat. Actually it was a dreadful journey; we were terribly seasick. Bells rung and nobody came. Really awful, however, we survived it. So when we arrived then, there were reporters
- [Rosa Sacharin - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rosa-sacharin-settling-in/) - RS: Well it was.... it wasn't my own decision. My sister, who was in Glasgow, actually was working in a nursery school, which was run by the Church of Scotland and she, I think, told one of the ladies about me being in Edinburgh. I had a visit from... she was a minister's wife, and
- [Rosa Sacharin - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/rosa-sacharin-reflection-on-life/) - INT: So one of the questions, which we always finish with is highlights. When you look back and reflect back on your life, what would you say are the major highlights? RS: There are so many actually. I don't think I could say there is one particular thing that influenced me. My parents who influenced
- [Ruth Fraser - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ruth-fraser-life-before-the-war/) - Ruth was born in Leipzig on the 6th November 1915. Her maiden name was Frischer and her parents had a Kosher butcher shop. INT: Today is the 26th of March. INT: OK. Number one: life before the war. Can you tell us about your early life? For example what did you parents do? And how
- [Ruth Fraser - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ruth-frazer-life-during-the-war/) - INT: So when did you leave Germany? Tell us about that. R.F: I left Germany end of 1938 together with a very good friend. INT: And he had connections in Switzerland, that’s why you went there. Is that right? R.F: Yes, connections. INT: Family? INT: What age were you then? R.F: Twenty-three. INT: And how
- [Ruth Fraser - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ruth-frazer-immigration/) - INT: So where did you land? You came to London. Did you go to somebody’s house? R.F: Yes because at the time my brother was, his family were staying in London so I was first stopped in London. But I had to start my job as a domestic help. INT: Whereabouts? R.F: In London? Swiss
- [Ruth Fraser - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ruth-frazer-settling-in/) - INT: When did you get married? R.F: 1945. INT: Where? R.F: In Glasgow INT: Was it South Portland Street? R.F: Yes. Something like this. INT: In Geneen’s? R.F: In Geneen’s restaurant, yes and the Chuppah…Ja. … they set up a chuppah. Yes. INT: And the Chuppah was there, alright. Who was the Rabbi? INT: It
- [Ruth Fraser - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ruth-frazer-reflection-on-life/) - INT: And were there lots of refugees there? Did you meet other people? R.F: Yes there were quite a few refugees otherwise. From Germany and Austria. In Glasgow I met my future husband. INT: Where? R.F: I was introduced with a Jewish family in Glasgow. I was introduced to my future husband. He came from
- [Saskia Tepe - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/saskia-tepe-life-before-the-war/) - Learn about the experiences of Saskia Tepe's mother, Brigitte Langer, who suffered the tribulations of war and its aftermath three times. Once under the Nazis as a Mischling, then under the Czechs as a Sudeten German, and finally as a refugee in a DP Camp in Germany. The aftermath of the war also affected the
- [Saskia Tepe - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/saskia-tepe-life-during-the-war/) - INT: I was just going to ask which town was she living in when she came back? Was it the same town? ST: Yes. It was a little town outside of Jagerndorf. INT: Right. ST: And I've forgotten it...it's Lobenstein, Lobenstein. So I'm not sure. I'm assuming that the Gestapo made some kind of base,
- [Saskia Tepe - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/saskia-tepe-immigration/) - ST: So, I don't know how it happened, but she ended up in a camp and I didn't really understand this camp that she was in until after she died and I started doing some research. But basically what happened is after the war ended the Czechs took retribution, if you like, on the Sudeten
- [Saskia Tepe - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/saskia-tepe-settling-in/) - ST: So moving on to the UK. After spending three months in a facility hosted by the British Council for Aid to Refugees, getting basic training in English, 'Can I have a pound of mince please', 'two tickets to...' INT: And coping with the currency of pounds, shillings and pence. ST: Exactly. We moved to
- [Saskia Tepe - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/saskia-tepe-reflection-on-life/) - INT: So Saskia you were telling us about what you discovered after your mother passed away. ST: In the documents in her box I discovered in a medical document that it said that she'd had 2 pregnancies, two normal pregnancies, one in 1945 and one in 1954. The first child died in infancy. And then
- [Sidney Mayer - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sidney-mayer-life-before-the-war/) - Sidney describes his early life in Germany and the huge changes that occurred once the Nazis came to power. INT: Good morning. We’re here to interview Mr Sidney Mayer and today is the 10th of December 2013. Good morning Sidney. SM: Morning. INT: Could you tell us first please when you were born? SM: On
- [Sidney Mayer - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sidney-mayer-life-during-the-war/) - In this section, Sidney describes how he arrived in England and explains why he came to Scotland. He talks about the fate of his family and mentions what happened to their property in Germany. And on Crystal Night in 1938, November, we had to leave. My father was arrested. He was taken to Dachau Concentration
- [Sidney Mayer - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sidney-mayer-immigration/) - Sidney describes the kindness of his new family – the Goldwaters. He talks about his early working life and his views on the Nazis. INT: They were lucky. So tell me about Scotland. What were your first impressions when you arrived? SM: When I came to Glasgow? Well, I was never in a big city
- [Sidney Mayer - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sidney-mayer-settling-in/) - Sidney describes his family life and the tragic deaths of his two wives. INT: When did you get married Sidney? SM: I got married for the first time in 1952. INT: And where did you meet your partner? Where did you meet your partner? SM: Well, in cafes, you know. In those days we used
- [Sidney Mayer - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sidney-mayer-reflection-on-life/) - Sidney describes his love of Scotland and talks warmly about his family. INT: So tell me now do you think of yourself as Scottish through and through? SM: Oh yes, definitely, definitely. INT: And your attitude to Scotland? SM: I beg your pardon? INT: And how do you feel about Scotland? SM: What do I
- [Susan Singerman - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/susan-singerman-life-before-the-war/) - In this very short section Susan Singerman tells of her birth in Hungary Int: Today is Saturday 14th August 2010 and I’m here to interview my mother-in-law Susan Singerman. When and where were you born and what was your name at birth? Susan: I was born in Western Hungary which was called Transnubia in a
- [Susan Singerman - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/susan-singerman-life-during-the-war/) - Susan notes that Jews in Hungary were only rounded up in 1944. She speaks of her family and herself being transported to Auschwitz but explains how it was that she survived and the others died. She describes how she was chosen to be part of a work detail in Lippstadt in Germany and describes her
- [Susan Singerman - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/susan-singerman-immigration/) - Susan explains that she had some distant relatives in Scotland and that is why she went there after the war was over Int: When you came to Scotland, how old were you then? Susan: I think I was 19. Int : You were liberated by the Americans and somehow you ended up here in Scotland.
- [Susan Singerman - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/susan-singerman-settling-in/) - Susan describes how she considered going to Palestine after the war but how, in the end, she came to Scotland and worked first as a trainee nurse. Int: You were going to explain how you came to Ayr. Susan: We were going to do this business of the false marriage. They sent away the Regiment;
- [Susan Singerman - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/susan-singerman-integration/) - In this section Susan talks of going to Glasgow University and becoming a languages teacher. She was encouraged to go to Garnethill Synagogue. Int : Did you decide after the year that you weren't cut out to be a nurse? Susan: No, I had two small children. They were going to be in my care
- [Susan Singerman - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/susan-singerman-reflection-on-life/) - This section is written and read by Howard Singerman, Susan’s son. He explains, as Susan was unable to do in her final months, how she contributed so much to the continuing struggle against racism. Howard Singerman: When my mother, Susan Singerman, was interviewed for the Gathering the Voices Project in August, 2010, she was seriously
- [Suzanne Ullman - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/suzanne-ullman-life-before-the-war/) - INT: Good morning Suzanne, today is the 31st may 2013 and we are here to interview Suzanne Ullmann, and generally what we do is we ask what your name is at birth and where you where born. SU : I was born in Budapest in 1935, 8th of December and my name….Hungarian name is Ullmann
- [Suzanne Ullman - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/suzanne-ullman-life-during-the-war/) - SU : Well you see what we had in Hungary was an Arrow Cross, special sort of branch of the gendarmerie, they were Nazis but the regime was under István Horthy who was in charge of the land. I remember distinctly when the Germans came into Budapest because what happened was the Germans occupied the
- [Suzanne Ullman - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/suzanne-ullman-immigration/) - INT: Do the boys have much of a memory of....I was going to say SU: No, the boys don't remember as much as I do. INT: And would they have remembered their parents because they were only 2? SU: No they were only 2, they didn’t remember the parents. I hardly remember my father, I
- [Suzanne Ullman - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/suzanne-ullman-settling-in/) - SU: Well I went to this proper school in Welwyn Garden City and did two years there, managed to get advanced German and Biology, I think. I had to do Maths, you know, from scratch and Chemistry and eventually I got into University College, London. They did a course called Intermediate so you could make
- [Suzanne Ullman - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/suzanne-ullman-reflection-on-life/) - SU: Of my academic career? INT: And your life in general. SU: Well I think my early life taught me values, it taught me how to appreciate things. I take nothing for granted, I don’t waste resources, I recycle everything and, you know, I appreciate everything that comes my way. It has made me positive,
- [Walter Gumprich - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/walter-gumprich-life-before-the-war/) - Walter speaks about his birth in 1933 and his family. He describes how his Mother missed out on being an Olympian because she was Jewish. INT: The date is the sixth of June 2014 we are talking to -WG: Walter Gumprich INT: And when were you born?WG: The 1st of March 1933 INT: And where
- [Walter Gumprich - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/walter-gumprich-immigration/) - With the help of a Catholic priest, the family escape from Germany. W.G: My father was released and came home and so then we immediately made an effort to get out of Germany, and to get out of Germany it was not feasible to use public transportation because it was too dangerous and with two
- [Walter Gumprich - Life During The War part 1](https://gatheringthevoices.com/walter-gumprich-life-during-the-war/) - Once in Glasgow, Walter goes to school, his mother finds work, though his father is interned on the Isle of Man. INT: Why Glasgow? WG: My father was interned in the Isle of Man right away so it was just my mother and sister and myself that were at liberty so to speak and Glasgow
- [Walter Gumprich - Life After The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/walter-gumprich-life-after-war/) - Walter describes studying agriculture in Ayr and the challenges of his time working on a farm. He explains what happened when he got into a fight there. W.G: I was doing a year’s practical farming which was compulsory in order to get study at the West of Scotland Agriculture and get a degree in agriculture
- [Walter Gumprich - National Service](https://gatheringthevoices.com/walter-gumprich-national-service/) - Walter describes his time doing National Service. He tells of a remarkable coincidence: a meeting between a British Major and his father when they were both fighting, though on different sides, in the First World War W.G:Then I did my 2 years National Service. I could have evaded because I’d been in agriculture. I could
- [Walter Gumprich - Working Life And Emigration To Canada](https://gatheringthevoices.com/walter-gumprich-working-life-and-emigration-to-canada/) - Walter explains about his working life after National Service and his decision to emigrate to Canada. INT: And you were coming back up to Glasgow? W.G:Glasgow, right absolutely. INT:So when you arrived in Glasgow, what was the community like then? W.G: Well, I really wasn’t all that interested. First of all, because we really just
- [Walter Gumprich - Integration Into Canada](https://gatheringthevoices.com/walter-gumprich-integration-into-canada/) - Walter summarises his working life in Canada INT:So when you were in Canada and people said, “Who are you? Are you German, Scottish - what were you? W.G: They just assumed that I was Scottish. Well I got a job. I got a job within a couple of days, not doing what I wanted, but
- [Walter Gumprich - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/walter-gumprich-reflection-on-life/) - Walter talks about his family and his philosophy of life INT:So all in all what message would you give to anybody listening to your story? We are going to have a lot of school children listening. W.G:I think when you look back two thirds is attitude. I don’t want to say successful life, because I
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- [Marianne Grant - Life Before the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-grant-life-before-the-war/) - INT: Today is 25th of November 2015, and I’m here to speak with Geraldine Shenkin, who is going to tell me a little about her mother, Mrs Marianne Grant. Geraldine describes her mother’s background in Czechoslovakia by reading from Marianne Grant’s autobiography. She goes on to talk about her mother’s great love for drawing and
- [Marianne Grant - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-grant-life-during-the-war/) - Geraldine talks about the increasing difficulties facing her mother and her grandmother as the war progressed. She describes their time in Theresienstadt and then in Auschwitz where her mother’s skills saved her life, when she was forced to draw for the notorious Dr Mengele. INT: That’s interesting. And life obviously changed very significantly for your
- [Marianne Grant - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-grant-integration/) - Geraldine talks about life in Glasgow; growing up as a child of two survivors and about her mother’s role as a minister’s wife. GS: And in the autumn of 1951, my mum and my grandma came to Glasgow and they were married in London and their life began. INT: And your father was a minister
- [Marianne Grant - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-grant-reflection-on-life/) - Finally Geraldine reflects on her parents’ lives and her own. She considers whether the world has learnt from the lessons of the Holocaust. INT: It’s a hard thing to know your mother suffered. GS: Very hard, but as children, we knew we weren’t allowed to leave anything on our plates; no food was to be
- [Marianne Grant - Life After The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marianne-grant-life-after-the-war/) - Geraldine explains why her mother and grandmother went to Sweden after the war. She describes their life there. She then explains the unusual way her mother met the young man, who became her husband. INT: And then your mother, you told us this before, ended up in Sweden, with her mother? GS: She did, she
- [Ullmann Family Papers](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-2/ullmann-ullmann-family-papers/) - This collection comprises of papers of the Ullmann family including correspondence received by Rudi and Lenke Ullmann in the UK from Lenke's mother Regina Brueck née Reisner, aka 'Lill Mama' (Little Grandma), 1939-1942 (with introduction and notes on individuals); poems by Regina Brueck, 1910-1940s, a long letter written by Regina Brueck to her daughter, Heddy,
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- [Sonja Hancox - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sonja-hancox-life-before-the-war/) - Sonja talks about her family and the changes that she noticed once the Nazis came to power. She describes life in Germany before they became refugees. INT: Today is the 24th of July 2013 and I’m here to interview Sonja Hancox. Sonja, could you tell me first when and where you were born and what
- [Sonja Hancox - Life During the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sonja-hancox-life-during-the-war/) - Sonja describes her experiences after arriving in Britain. SH: And so we arrived, we went to London first where we had rich relations but they only took us to see the sights. You know what it was like? INT: Yes. I think that was common. SH: Yes. We saw the Bank of England and everything
- [Sonja Hancox - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sonja-hancox-settling-in/) - Sonja tells the interviewer why she ended up in Scotland and about her life here. INT: And…So what, after all these apprenticeships, what job did you end up doing? SH: I became a milliner. INT: Oh. SH: Because that was part of my mother’s - what she did in the shops. INT: Right, and yet
- [Sonja Hancox - Reflection on Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sonja-hancox-reflection-on-life/) - Sonja explains how she feels in relation to Scotland. INT: Tell me if you look back on your time here in Scotland what would you say were the high points for you? SH: Probably acceptance. Nobody ever asked me…….they thought I was just foreign, you know. But I could have been Italian or Spanish or…
- [Sonja Hancox - Afterthoughts](https://gatheringthevoices.com/sonja-hancox-afterthoughts/) - Sonja talks more about her family and describes the fate of her grandparents. INT: And Marion, you’re Sonja’s daughter, would you like to add anything? M: Well one thing mum didn’t mention was when my grandfather flew off in this jet with the woman from the Thai embassy somehow or another they ended up in
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- [Susan Singerman - National Life Stories](https://gatheringthevoices.com/susan-singerman-national-life-stories/) - 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
- [Holocaust Survivors Reunited After 67 Years](https://gatheringthevoices.com/holocaust-survivors-reunited-after-67-years/) - For the first time since 1940, Moniek Garber of Glasgow, Scotland and Moshe Porat-Perelman of Kvar Saba, Israel spoke on the phone August 29, 2007 due to the efforts of JewishGen vice presidents Michael Tobias of Glasgow, Scotland and Joyce Field of West Lafayette, Indiana, USA and the assistance of Eilat Gordin Levitan of Los
- [Eva Szirmai - Life After The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/eva-szirmai-life-after-the-war/) - Eva describes the poverty of Hungary after the war. She mentions the horrible behaviour of some of the Russian ‘liberators.’ she tells the interviewers what happened when she and her mother tried but failed to return to their flat. E.S. Actually I went back after the war when I was liberated. INT: Oh right. E.S:
- [Eva Szirmai - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/eva-szirmai-immigration/) - Eva explains that she eventually came to Glasgow because her Husband had been offered a job at Queens Park Synagogue. She describes the challenges she faced when trying to get a visa to leave Hungary. INT: So how did you end up in Britain then? E.S: How did we end up here? I got married
- [Eva Szirmai - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/eva-szirmai-settling-in/) - Eva talks about her first experiences of life in Glasgow. She describes the delight she experienced when she and her family celebrated their first Friday night in a free country. INT: Ah, no, what I meant had you had your other children? Were your other children born in Scotland? E.S: No my daughter born here,
- [Evelyn Strang - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/evelyn-strang-life-before-the-war/) - Evelyn Strang describes her family and her early life in Germany and Poland before 1938 INT: Today is the 9th of April 2012 and I'm here to interview Mrs Evelyn Strang. Could you tell me please when you were born, where and what was your name at birth? E.S: I was born in Leipzig in
- [Evelyn Strang - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/evelyn-strang-life-during-the-war/) - Read the Transcript E.S: Well we were arrested in 1938 and put on a train to we didn't know where, but ended up in a forest. And it was obviously outside Poland and we were told to get off the train and start walking in the night, in the rain. And all of a sudden
- [Evelyn Strang - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/evelyn-strang-immigration/) - Read the Transcript E.S: Yes. The first thing my mother did was to phone Rabbi Rubinstein. INT: That's the Giffnock Synagogue, that's right? E.S: At that time it was Clarkston. INT: Ah I see. E.S: And then he went to Giffnock. And became members of the Shul and made a lot of friends, all the
- [Evelyn Strang - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/evelyn-strang-settling-in/) - Read the Transcript E.S: Yes. INT: What happened then? E.S: After the war I, my father had a factory. INT: He was a furrier did you say? E.S: Yes, yes. But I went to the Art School, I went to a dress making school but my father said 'Come to the factory, what are you
- [Evelyn Strang - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/evelyn-strang-reflection-on-life/) - Read the Transcript E.S: Just that all the Scottish people were so wonderful. I couldn't believe it. After having lived in Germany and being, you know, abused by the Germans, I couldn't believe the people here were so nice. INT: And do you think they were particularly nice because they knew what you had gone
- [Frieda Laird - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/frieda-laird-life-before-the-war/) - Frieda talks about her family background and her early education. She mentions that she lost her immediate relatives as a result of the Nazi regime. INT: You’re unusual? FL: Unusual. INT: Do you think, do you think your complexion is so good because when you were a little girl you lived on a farm? Did
- [Frieda Laird - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/frieda-laird-life-during-the-war/) - Frieda explains why she ended up in Scotland as a domestic servant. She tells the interviewers that she had intended to study languages but the Nazis ended her hopes of an education. INT: So what age were you when… You said you were 18 when you came here. How did you leave Germany? FL: Because
- [Frieda Laird - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/frieda-laird-immigration/) - Frieda describes her life in Scotland and the difficulties and challenges she faced as a young, vulnerable woman. She mentions her marriage and the unreliability of her husband. FL: Well, I don’t know, you see. I actually went away from my, not my religion, but I didn’t mix with Jewish people much. INT: No, but
- [Frieda Laird - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/frieda-laird-settling-in/) - Frieda describes how she met her husband and how she managed to make ends meet. She tells the interviewer that she is now Scottish. INT: What age were you when you got married? FL: 21. INT: Gosh that’s quite, that’s quite young. And so how did you meet your husband? FL: I met him through
- [Frieda Laird - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/frieda-laird-reflection-on-life/) - Frieda speaks with love and pride about her children. She mentions the terrible fate of her parents and brothers and the fact that, although her life was hard, it could have been much worse. INT: I still never found out what age you were though, Frieda. FL: Pardon? INT: I still never found out what
- [George Taylor - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/george-taylor-life-before-the-war/) - Read the transcript: INT: And where were you born? What was the name of the place? G.T: Ostpreußen - East Prussia which is now Poland. After the Second World War it became Poland. The little place is called Gilgenburg G-I-L-G-E-N-B-U-R-G. INT: And do you have any idea how many people lived there? G.T: Not very
- [George Taylor - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/george-taylor-life-during-the-war/) - Read the transcript: G.T: My mother got my brother out. He came over the day the war started. He was twenty four and had just got married in Hanover. He too was supposed to have gone to Israel. His wife came from the same town where we had stayed. He was on a boat crossing
- [George Taylor - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/george-taylor-immigration/) - Read the transcript: G.T: Yes INT: Was your mum there to meet you when you came? G.T: No she wasn't. That’s another wee story. G.T: You were only allowed to take ten shillings (marks?, ed), no matter how much money you had and one suitcase. You packed as much as you could and you put
- [George Taylor - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/george-taylor-settling-in/) - Read the transcript: G.T: Yes, I stayed there for a bit. I was in Glasgow maybe one or two weeks and they arranged a job for me at a Jewish firm, Berman Brothers in Ritchie Street. It was only recently that they pulled the building down. It was a furniture place making hold ups and
- [George Taylor - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/george-taylor-integration/) - Read the transcript: G.T: No, not really. INT: Anyone in the Jewish community? G.T: No. I did my own thing. G.T: When I started work my boss introduced me to this guy about six feet odds and a couple of years older than me. He said, “This is big Alec and he stays in the
- [George Taylor - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/george-taylor-reflection-on-life/) - Read the transcript: G.T: Five children. G.T: My oldest son died at 42 about 12 years ago. We had twin girls, another daughter and a son now in London. INT: And when did you move to Hamilton? G.T: 1986 when my wife died I moved to my daughter's. INT: Before that where did you live?
- [Gretl Shapiro - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gretl-shapiro-life-before-the-war/) - Read the Transcript NT: How did you come here? G.S: I came with a children's transport which was arranged by the Quakers, the 'Society of Friends' INT: And where had you come from? G.S: I had come from Vienna INT: Why had your parents allowed you to come? G.S: Well, they could see no future
- [Gretl Shapiro - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gretl-shapiro-immigration/) - Read the Transcript G.S: Well, yes. My sister was already here and we arrived at Liverpool Street Station and I remember there was a sort of barrier and my sister was standing there waving madly, but we were rushed away because I think that we had to catch a train to Coventry. And so I
- [Gretl Shapiro - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gretl-shapiro-settling-in/) - Read the Transcript G.S: Yes, yes. INT: She actually brought you up? G.S: Yes. She did yes. She brought me up, she paid for my education. She was wonderful, really, an extraordinary woman. Never made you feel you owed her anything, always approved of what you did. A fabulous woman, really. INT: Did she welcome
- [Gretl Shapiro - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gretl-shapiro-integration/) - Read the Transcript G.S: Oh, no no no. I mean I used to go with her to meetings, into the meeting house but she would never have. No, no, she wouldn't want to convert me or anything. No, no, that wasn't in it. And at first I used to listen, because I don't know whether
- [Gretl Shapiro - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gretl-shapiro-reflection-on-life/) - Read the Transcript G.S: Well I get upset about it but I haven't joined any groups or anything to do anything about it. I suppose I should. INT: I just wondered if perhaps an experience like that would make you fear that it could happen anywhere - do you think it could? G.S: Well I
- [Halina Moss - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/halina-moss-life-before-the-war/) - Halina describes her life in Poland and Russia during the war and how she eventually came to Scotland. Read the transcript INT: Could you tell us when and where you were born and what was your name at birth? HM: I was born in Warsaw and my name at birth was Halina Lewiner (L E
- [Halina Moss - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/halina-moss-life-during-the-war/) - Halina describes how the family managed to leave Warsaw and finally settle in Bialystock where Halina went to school. Read the transcript: INT: Can we take you back. You went back to Poland, obviously a very dangerous time. What happened after that? HM: Well we got to Poland and we reoccupied our flat and on
- [Halina Moss - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/halina-moss-settling-in/) - Halina describes how she found it difficult to integrate with the Jewish community at first. Read the transcript: INT: Why were you so keen on Scotland? HM: I don’t know, I was just the kind of girl who was enthusiastic about countries. INT: So when you came here were your dreams met or were you
- [Halina Moss - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/halina-moss-integration/) - Halina remembers her early years teaching in various schools in Glasgow. Read the transcript: INT: And what did you study at university? HM: I did an ordinary degree, which is not brilliant in Physics and science in general, but Physics in particular, and Maths. INT: That sounds hard to me. And how were you able
- [Halina Moss - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/halina-moss-reflection-on-life/) - Halina describes meeting her husband and starting a family. Read the transcript: INT: So, how did you meet your husband? HM: I met him at a student dance a Glasgow Jewish Students’ Society Dance. I was a wee bit too old for it as I was already out of university by then but my mother
- [Henry Wuga - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/henry-wuga-life-before-the-war/) - H.W: My name at birth was Heinz Martin Wuga. I was born in Nürnberg, Germany on the 23rd of February 1924. INT: OK. When did you arrive in Scotland? H.W: I arrived in Scotland on the 5th of May 1939 INT: So what age were you then? H.W: Fifteen and a half INT: Yes. How
- [Henry Wuga - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/henry-wuga-life-during-the-war/) - In this section Henry describes his life when he reached Britain as a Kindertransport refugee. His first placement when the war broke out was in a farm in Perthshire but fairly soon he found himself being treated as an enemy alien and was interned in various places, eventually on the Isle of Man. H.W: Now,
- [Henry Wuga - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/henry-wuga-immigration/) - In Glasgow my mother's cousin, Mrs Gummers, Gummers the dentist; they emigrated to Glasgow from Germany so my mother asked Greta Gummers could she find a place for me and then the committee in Glasgow, the Ladies Committee - Mrs Thora Wolffson and Mrs Thelma Mann found me a place and I came by Kindertransport
- [Henry Wuga - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/henry-wuga-settling-in/) - In this section Henry explains how he trained as a chef and finally set up a successful catering business. He talks of the political, musical and other interests pursued by the Jewish refugee community in Glasgow. He describes how orthodox religious rules in Glasgow caused him some problems as a caterer. INT: Yes. So when
- [Henry Wuga - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/henry-wuga-reflection-on-life/) - Henry tells of his love for skiing and his commitment to helping disabled people learn to ski. He feels completely at home in Glasgow and is very satisfied with his life there. INT: Yeah, such is life. Henry can I ask you about something you haven't mentioned but I know is the love of your
- [Ike Gibson - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ike-gibson-life-before-the-war/) - Ike tells us about his early life and his family INT: So the first thing we ask you is what was your name at birth? IG: Izak Goldberger. INT: OK. IG Spelled with a ‘z’ and an ‘ak’ INT: Oh, OK. And when was that? IG: 1934 INT: Where? IG: In Hamburg. INT: In Hamburg,
- [Ike Gibson - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ike-gibson-immigration/) - Ike recounts his journey from Germany as a Kinder. He describes his difficult arrival in England INT: So what happened, when Kristallnacht happened… IG: Yeah. INT: Life changed. IG: Yeah. INT: Can you remember any of that? IG: Not really. I was kept, sort of ticking over. INT: Yeah. IG: So I don’t really remember.
- [Ike Gibson - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ike-gibson-life-during-the-war/) - Ike helps the war effort by raising pigs. INT: So you were telling me earlier about life during the war, about how May gave you a job? IG: Oh yeah with the pigs, the three pigs that we had in the sty across in the allotments. And that’s where she met Ted Gibson who used
- [Ike Gibson - Life After The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ike-gibson-life-after-the-war/) - Ike relates his experiences as a King’s Scout and taking part in the Coronation celebrations. He describes his life during National Service. IG: I can remember the huge celebrations in the Main Street in St. Ives but beyond that nothing really. And then May absolutely wanted me to go on to the 6th Form and
- [Ike Gibson - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ike-gibson-settling-in/) - Ike becomes an academic in bacterial and viral genetics and his eventual early retirement to Ullapool IG: Then I came out and for a little while had no job and then…. INT: How old were you at this time? IG: I must have been 20/21. INT: Yeah. IG: And then I finally got a job
- [Ike Gibson - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ike-gibson-reflection-on-life/) - Ike talks about his family and his B & B in Ullapool. We hear how grateful he is to May Wiles and learn what happened to his parents who were in hiding in Belgium INT: Right, so you had already had your family? IG: I had two children and I always joke with people they
- [Ingrid Wuga - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ingrid-wuga-life-before-the-war/) - INT: This is an interview with Mrs. Ingrid Wuga on Sunday the 29th of August 2010. So can you tell us when and where you were born? IW: I was born in Dortmund, Westphalia. The date of my birth is the 24th of June 1924 INT: And what was your name at birth? IW: Ingrid
- [Ingrid Wuga - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ingrid-wuga-life-during-the-war/) - INT: Ok. So I spoke to you just before we turned the tape on and I was going to say when did you first come to Scotland? But you told me that you came to England first IW: That's right INT: So how old were you when you came over? IW: I was exactly, I
- [Ingrid Wuga - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ingrid-wuga-immigration/) - INT: So when you arrived in England IW: In Liverpool INT: In Liverpool. You were met IW: By a Mr. Overton who was also from the group of Christadelphians who had arranged to bring people/children over; boys and girls. And there were quite a few in Ashby-de-la-Zouch but I only met one couple because I,
- [Ingrid Wuga - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ingrid-wuga-settling-in/) - INT: Alright. IW: '41 yes INT: So you came to West Kilbride IW: West Kilbride INT: And you all lived there? IW: Yes well my parents had a job in one house and I was in another house and I was very kindly treated by a Mrs. Wright in a small place, not West Kilbride
- [Ingrid Wuga - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ingrid-wuga-integration/) - INT: So you were working during the war? IW: I was INT: You were more than a seamstress really; you were cutting patterns IW: Yes INT: You were learning to IW: No that was, that was for myself. No I was only a seamstress in the shop learning to do alterations to make things smaller
- [Ingrid Wuga - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/ingrid-wuga-reflection-on-life/) - INT: You mentioned that when you came over... when you left your home to come over at the beginning and you waved goodbye to your parents- Do you sort of reflect on that? How different things could have been had they not come over? Do you feel... IW: Oh yes INT: Very fortunate? IW: I
- [Isi Metzstein - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/isi-metzstein-life-before-the-war/) - Read the Transcript IM: Absolutely INT: Thanks IM: So, can we start with your arrival here in Scotland? Could you tell us please when and where you were born and did you have a different name at birth or was this always your name? IM: No. My name is Isi Israel Metzstein. People think Isi
- [Isi Metzstein - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/isi-metzstein-immigration/) - Read the Transcript IM: The 28th of June 1939 INT: And you remember it very well? IM: No I don't...I remember the arrival, I don't remember the date. I just happened to have recently looked at the document which was stamped with the 28th of... Of course we arrived a day earlier in London but
- [Isi Metzstein - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/isi-metzstein-life-during-the-war/) - Read the Transcript IM: Actually not really. It was at the one stage but I was quite young of course. If I'd been older it would be probably quite uncomfortable because they found it difficult to distinguish between Germans and Germans if you know what I mean? But some of them were German. I never
- [Isi Metzstein - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/isi-metzstein-settling-in/) - Read the Transcript IM: I wasn't. I stayed at home with my mother INT: Right and she found work in Scotland? IM: Oh yes INT: When she came over IM: Yes. For a long time she worked in Geneen's as a cook INT: So within the Jewish community? IM: Oh she was more related to
- [Isi Metzstein - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/isi-metzstein-integration/) - Read the Transcript IM: Not very much. My mother was orthodox, quite religious, and we had big battles about that. She wanted me to do the right thing and by the time I was about 14, I must admit I had lost all interest in religion, or any belief in God. And we had quite
- [Isi Metzstein - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/isi-metzstein-reflection-on-life/) - Read the Transcript INT2: When you go to Berlin what aspects are you looking at in architecture? IM: Mostly for the students? INT2: Yes IM: Housing. German housing has been a succession of contradictory ideas. In the Victorian equivalent or the late Georgian equivalent, they had a particular type of building and then, it was,
- [Joe Cent - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/joe-cent-life-before-the-war/) - Read the Transcript J.C: I was born in France in the town of Valenciennes on the 20th of March 1937 and my certificate of birth has me as Joseph Samuel Centnerszwer. INT: Thanks. You were obviously very young; are you able to tell us a little about your family life before you came to Britain?
- [Joe Cent - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/joe-cent-life-during-the-war/) - Joe talks about his father’s military career. He explains why a chance encounter brought him and his mother to Scotland. INT: So how was it you came here to Scotland? What happened? J.C: My father had been in the military cadets which was part of university life in Warsaw during the 1921 attacks by the
- [Joe Cent - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/joe-cent-settling-in/) - Joe talks about his early life in Scotland and his mother’s desire ‘to blend in’. He also describes his education and varied career. INT: You wouldn’t have had any contact with other Jewish families would you? J.C: No, not much. No, no. INT: I see that’s very interesting. And then what happened? You were educated
- [Joe Cent - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/joe-cent-integration/) - Joe tells the interviewer what he discovered about the rest of his parents’ family. He mentions continuing anti-Semitism in Europe. Then he describes his last, and favourite, career change. J.C: [Joe is asked about the fate of the rest of his family]. ...because I found letters. I’ve got a lot of letters that I’m going
- [Joe Cent - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/joe-cent-reflection-on-life/) - Joe talks about his feelings about identity – Jewish, Polish and Scottish. He discusses family and, finally, his enthusiasm for the Citroen 2CV. INT: Of course. I wondered…you were obviously separated from the Jewish world very early on. J.C: Yes. INT: Did you ever come back towards it? J.C: Yes I did when my father
- [John Subak Sharpe - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-subak-sharpe-life-before-the-war/) - John Herbert Subak-Sharpe (1924- ) was Professor of Virology and Honorary Director of the Medical Research Council Virology Unit from 1968 to 1994. Born in Vienna, Subak-Sharp was brought to Britain by the Kindertransport mission in 1939 and was a farm pupil from 1939 to 1944, before serving in the Parachute Regiment. He graduated with
- [John Subak Sharpe - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-subak-sharpe-life-during-the-war/) - JSS: I ran away from that farm, I didn’t tell you this before. INT: Ah so you came over to stay with the…? BSS: Peskins JSS: Peskins INT: The Peskins… JSS: Until about May INT: So only for a very, very short time. JSS: A very short time. INT: And then what happened? JSS: I
- [John Subak Sharpe - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-subak-sharpe-immigration/) - INT: Good. When did you arrive here in Scotland and how old were you when you came? JSS: Well, first of all I did not arrive initially in Scotland but in England on the Kindertransport. I had been working for quite some time in agriculture as a farm labourer or farm pupil, whatever you like.
- [John Subak Sharpe - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-subak-sharpe-settling-in/) - JSS: When I got to Birmingham University, as I said, the first years had to be shared but I got lectures from a brilliant lecturer, a not very pleasant man, but a brilliant lecturer in genetics. And I decided when he asked me to go into the first year in genetics which would be the
- [John Subak Sharpe - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-subak-sharpe-reflection-on-life/) - INT: Can I ask you a little about your experience as a refugee? When you came up to Glasgow did you mix with other people who had escaped Germany? BSS: Yes INT: Or even before that did you...? JSS: You mean when I first came up? INT: Well you were only here for 6 weeks
- [Judith Rosenberg - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/judith-rosenberg-life-before-the-war/) - Judith describes her joyful early years in Hungary and then her growing awareness that life was changing in a frightening way.INT: Today is the 5th of May 2013 and we’re here to interview Judith Rosenberg. Judith, can I start by asking you where you were born, when you were born and what was your name
- [Judith Rosenberg - Life During The War And The Aftermath](https://gatheringthevoices.com/judith-rosenberg-life-during-the-war-and-the-aftermath/) - Judith describes life in Hungary between 1940 and 1944 as increasing anti-Semitism made life much more difficult for Jewish people. She then talks about what happened to her family after the Nazis took over Hungary. She describes their horrifying journey to Auschwitz and her time there. Being young enough to work, she is selected to
- [Judith Rosenberg - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/judith-rosenberg-immigration/) - Judith describes her arrival in Glasgow and the challenges of integration. She then talks about returning to Hungary, where she was finally reunited with her mother. INT: And then you came to Glasgow after the war. JR: After the war, after April the 14th, the 15th, we were on our way home to Glasgow. I
- [Judith Rosenberg - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/judith-rosenberg-integration/) - Judith tells the interviewers that life improved for her and Harold. Her mother remained in Hungary and Harold helped support her there. INT: And did your mother stay in Hungary then for the rest of her life? JR: She stayed in Hungary for…But then things quickly became better. Harold had a better job and I
- [Judith Rosenberg - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/judith-rosenberg-reflection-on-life/) - Judith concludes by describing the high point in her life – her husband Harold’s love and loyalty to her and her love for him. INT: Just one last question Judith. If you look, looking back on your life what would you say was the high point of your life? JR: The high point of my
- [Karola Regent - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/karola-regent-life-before-the-war/) - INT: Today is the 26 February 2015 and I’m here to interview Karola Regent, good afternoon Karola. Could I begin by asking you when you born and where were you born? KR: I was born in Düsseldorf on the 5 December 1925. INT: And what was your name at birth? KR: Well, my surname was
- [Karola Regent - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/karola-regent-life-during-the-war/) - INT: After that did your parents decide that they had to leave or you had to leave, what happened then KR: Well, they didn’t, yes they decided then, that my uncle in America who had been pleading for them to come and send us, [they] decided that we had to go, my sister and I.
- [Karola Regent - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/karola-regent-immigration/) - INT: Tell us about coming to Britain then, how did you feel about your arrival in a strange country, did you have any English or did your sister speak any English? KR: I knew porridge and good morning and thank you and one or two other little expressions, but the point was that we, it
- [Karola Regent - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/karola-regent-integration/) - INT: So when you were evacuated, did you all stay in a big school together or did you stay with people? KR: No, we were, my whole class were loaded into a lorry and … PR: You went by train and then lorry. KR: Pardon? PR: You went by train and then from the station,
- [Karola Regent - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/karola-regent-settling-in/) - INT: And then after the war, what happened after the war? Did you go on to university, did you get a job? PR: You had to do war work during the war. KR: Yes, I did some war work, now what was it, yes, because of my ability to speak German, the Ministry of Economic
- [Karola Regent - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/karola-regent-reflection-on-life/) - INT: Can I ask you when you came here, did people know about your background? Did they know about your German background and your Jewish background and what brought you to Britain in the first place? KR: Which people? INT: The people you met here in Dundee, the local people who became your friends and
- [Kathy Hagler - Life Before The WWII](https://gatheringthevoices.com/kathy-hagler-life-before-the-wwii/) - Kathy was born in 1942, her father was taken away by the Nazis when she was just one year old. Initially, she was sent to the Munkacs Ghetto with her mother and baby sister. Kathy explains that even as a child she knew it was not a good idea to let people know she was
- [Kathy Hagler - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/kathy-hagler-life-during-the-war/) - Kathy was one of the very few to have survived the Munkacs Ghetto as tragically, all the inhabitants, including her mother and baby sister were sent to Auschwitz. She talks more about her mother in the section under Reflection. KH: I was born towards the end of 1942 in what turned out to be several countries.
- [Howard Singerman](https://gatheringthevoices.com/howard-singerman/) - After their marriage, my parents settled in London, where my sister and I were born. After her marriage broke up, my mother moved back to Glasgow in autumn 1952 with her children. She became a teacher of modern languages. After she retired in the mid 1980s my mother started going to schools to talk about
- [Hilary Anson](https://gatheringthevoices.com/hilary-anson/) - 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.
- [Judith Rosenberg - Video Interview](https://gatheringthevoices.com/judith-rosenberg-video-interview/)
- [Holocaust Educational Trust](https://gatheringthevoices.com/holocaust-educational-trust/) - The Holocaust Educational Trust was established in 1988. Our aim is to educate young people from every background about the Holocaust and the important lessons to be learned for today. To view the full Poster - Click the image below or Click Here
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- [Fred Weiss - His Story](https://gatheringthevoices.com/fred-weiss-his-story/) - Fred Weiss - His Story FRIEDRICH (Fridyes in Hungarian) LOTHAR WEISS, better known as Fred Weiss, was born in Miskolc in Hungary on May 23rd 1921. He lived most of his adult life in Glasgow, Scotland and epitomised the ideal of how a poor young refugee could make good by hard work and strong will.
- [Henry Wuga - Personal Diary](https://gatheringthevoices.com/henry-wuga-personal-diary/) - My first 23 months in the United Kingdom May 1939 to April 1941 An incredible experience for a German Jewish Refugee Boy aged 15 to 17 years May 1939 Arrived by Kindertransport train at Liverpool Street Station London Next day by Royal Scott train from Euston to Glasgow Welcomed by Mrs. E. Hurwich, my Guarantor
- [Henry Wuga - June 1940 The Fun And Normal Life Come To An Abrupt End](https://gatheringthevoices.com/henry-wuga-june-1940-the-fun-and-normal-life-come-to-an-abrupt-end/) - The refugee committee informed me that I need to go to the high court in Edinburgh. A lawyer from the committee accompanied me to the high court but he was not allowed into the hearing. At the High court in Edinburgh I was convicted of “Corresponding with the Enemy” a very serious offence during wartime.
- [The Memory of Belsen](https://gatheringthevoices.com/the-memory-of-belsen/) - During the war, Jack was a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and was haunted by his experience of helping to liberate Belsen Concentration Camp in March 1945. It took him 19 years to be able to express some of his pain in committing his thoughts to paper. The pain of these memories remained with him
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- [Gerda Fulton - Reflections about the former Glasgow Refugee Centre](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gerda-fulton-reflections-about-the-former-glasgow-refugee-centre/) - Credit'. Extract from BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on 26.08.1988. For people escaping the horrors of Nazism in Europe, those who fled their homes and settled here, will be reunited to pay tribute to the city which provided such a warm welcome. The site of the former centre is now occupied by the city's Dental
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- [John Mackay - Before the war](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-mckay-before-the-war/) - INT: Today is the second of July 2015 and I’m here in Broughty Ferry to speak to John MacKay. INT: So, John, can I begin by asking when you were born and where? JM: Not in Broughty Ferry. My name is John Stewart MacKay, and I was born in Glasgow in Shawlands in Peveril Avenue
- [John Mackay - During the war](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-mackay-during-the-war-2/) - So that was 1939 and it was 1946 before I actually took my uniform off. So, I joined the London Scottish and ended up that night on the Surrey Commercial Docks where we guarded the docks and moved around and round - West India Docks, Surrey Commercial Docks, and several other docks - I just
- [John Mackay - After the war](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-mackay-after-the-war/) - INT: We usually finish by asking what you would say were the high points and the low points in your life. Would you like to finish off by telling us that? JM: The high points of my life…. I got the MBE, which is something. INT: For your war work? JM: Not for my war
- [John Mackay - Reflection on life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/john-mackay-reflection-on-life/) - INT: We usually finish by asking what you would say were the high points and the low points in your life. Would you like to finish off by telling us that? JM: The high points of my life…. I got the MBE, which is something. INT: For your war work? JM: Not for my war
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- [Evelyn Strang - Newspaper Article](https://gatheringthevoices.com/evelyn-strang-newspaper-article/) - Translation from Germany to English below: A Child from Berlin Flies to New York Yesterday morning at 11.50, the American plane “Flagship Amsterdam” took off from Tempelhof on its first flight back to New York. Among the passengers was the well-known American journalist Louis P Lochner. This time he is bringing not only the most
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- [Alice Malcolm - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/alice-malcolm-life-during-the-war/) - Alice describes her education. Then she speaks about the difficulties she met because she was a Jewish Refugee. We learn about her experiences as a kitchen maid in a stately home. AM: So I went to school [in England]. I was not at school for very long, when the war broke out . In those
- [Alice Malcolm - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/alice-malcolm-reflection-on-life/) - Alice talks about the kindness of Glasgow people and her happiness in Scotland. AM: So I have enjoyed my new country. INT: Yes. AM: I have never lost my foreign accent because when I was evacuated I was in with so many different accents I copied them all. In the end I stayed in Scotland
- [Bob Kutner - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-kutner-life-during-the-war/) - In this section Bob gives details of his brother’s work as a French spy and of his own efforts to get out of Italy and reach Britain. INT1: You were in Milan BK: Yea, this is the, the high and low point of our family life really. Um my brother got himself sort of conscripted.
- [Bob Kutner - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-kutner-immigration/) - In this section Bob explains how he came to Scotland and what his initial experiences of life in Britain were. INT1: When did you arrive in Scotland and how old were you then? BK: As I said, I estimate I arrived in Scotland about forty nine. 1949. And how old was I? Well you again
- [Bob Kutner - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-kutner-settling-in/) - In this section Bob describes his first jobs in Britain when he left the army after the war. He also talks of his time before that as a soldier in the British army. INT1: Did you work when, when you arrived here? BK: Yes, I started out as a small time commercial traveler. Working for
- [Bob Kutner - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-kutner-integration/) - Bob explains how he met his wife, what kind of jobs he did as a civilian during the war and the restrictions which Jews and foreigners experienced at that time. INT1: How did you meet Barbara? BK: Well, I was acquainted by then with a guy called Sidney Shear He plays the piano at the,
- [Bob Kutner - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-kutner-reflection-on-life/) - Bob talks of his own family in Glasgow and the importance of the wider Jewish community there INT1: One last question really about your time in Scotland. What were the high and lows for you? Obviously you got married, you had children BK: Yes. Well, obviously getting married was a high INT1: Mm BK: Um,
- [Bob Mackenzie - Background](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie-background/) - Bob explains the origin of the Kindertransport Movement BM: This is the 18th of March 2014. The British Parliament was approached by the ‘Movement for the Care of Children of Germany’ to hasten the travel permits. The movement promised to fund the whole of the operation and stated that they would not be a drain
- [Dorothea Brander -  Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorothea-brander-life-before-the-war/) - Dorothea was born in Berlin in 1924. Her father was a Chemist and worked for a company that produced toothpaste and later poison gas. The family lived in a company owned flat. INT: Today is January the 22nd 2014 and I’m here to interview Dorothea Brander. Dorothea, can I begin by asking you where you
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- [Dorothea Brander -  Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorothea-brander-settling-in/) - Dorothea arrived in Britain as a young bride. She moved in with her parents in law in Glasgow. INT: And were you excited to be going to Britain? DB: Well yes I was glad. INT: Or were you worried about it? DB: Well sure I was worried because I didn’t have a clue what was going on and Donald
- [Dorothea Brander - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorothea-brander-integration/) - Dorothea travelled with her husband who worked for the British Council. She lived for a time in Otto Hahn’s house (he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944) INT: And he was still working with the British Council? DB: He was still with the British Council. He had a very good job, he was Director of
- [Dorothea Brander - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorothea-brander-reflection-on-life/) - NT: If you look back now on your time here in Scotland what would you say were the high points of your life here? DB: That’s very difficult to say. INT: Your family I assume? DB: Yes I think…I don’t think I can really say. INT: Right. DB: I mean I suppose it was my time as a social worker I
- [Dorothea Brander - Video Interview](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorothea-brander-video-interview/) - Dorothea Brander über Dorothea Brander from Anne Frank Zentrum on Vimeo.
- [Dorrith M. Sim - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorrith-m-sim-life-before-the-war/) - Dorrit describes the events surrounding Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport. Read the Transcript. INT: Good afternoon Dorrith. It's the 26th of September 2010 and I'm here to talk to Dorrith Sim. Dorrith, could you begin by telling us when and where you were born and what was your name at birth? D.S: I was born in
- [Dorrith M. Sim - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorrith-m-sim-life-during-the-war/) - Read the Transcript D.S: Well, what happened was I actually left school when I was fifteen for which I was very sorry. I could never pass an English exam. And at that time, you know if you were doing your Highers you had to pass English or else you could just forget it. So I
- [Dorrith M. Sim - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorrith-m-sim-immigration/) - Read the Transcript. D.S: I arrived in England on the 26th of July 1939. My parents had managed to get guardians for me and they met me at Liverpool Street Station. And there, you know, my guardian's brother came too, because he spoke German and we went in the car. I think we must have
- [Dorrith M. Sim - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorrith-m-sim-settling-in/) - Read the Transcript D.S: I was seven and a half. INT: But you can't really remember any of it? D.S: Oh I can remember bits of it but not very much. INT: Going back to what happened once you were here, during the wartime you must have just been at school, were you? D.S: Well
- [Dorrith M. Sim - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorrith-m-sim-integration/) - Read the Transcript INT: And he was training to be a lawyer at the time? D.S: That's right. That was my first job and I was there until I went to Brazil. INT: And by that time were you engaged? D.S: I was engaged just about three or four weeks before I went to Brazil.
- [Dorrith M. Sim - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorrith-m-sim-reflection-on-life/) - Read the Transcript D.S: It was fifty years after the start of the war so it must have been 1989. That would be the reunion in London. And then I think our one was the next year, it would be '90. INT: Did you feel that you had more in common with people who'd come
- [Eva Szirmai - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/eva-szirmai-life-before-the-war/) - Eva describes her Family Background and her early education INT: So we normally start off by saying good afternoon Mrs Szirmai. E.S: Yes INT: How do you want us to address you by the way? E.S: Just Eva. INT: Eva, right. E.S: Yes. INT: So today is the 12th of… INT: April. INT: April. See
- [Eva Szirmai - Life During The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/eva-szirmai-life-during-the-war/) - Eva first describes her experiences as an apprentice photographer. She then goes on to speak about life under the Germans – the yellow star houses, the arrests, the hunger, the curfew, the ghetto and the good luck that saved her life. Read the Transcript INT: And what age were you then when the Germans came
- [Eva Szirmai - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/eva-szirmai-reflection-on-life/) - Eva emphasises that the highlight of her life was living in Scotland in a free society INT: Eva we always finish with asking people to say their highlights. E.S: Yes INT: And not so much the low points of their lives. But what would you say, reflecting back, what would you say are your highlights?
- [Bob Mackenzie - Life Before the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie-life-before-the-war/) - I was born in the town of Chemnitz in South East Germany. I do not recollect my very early years but in 1933 my father lost his job in Chemnitz and we moved to a small town called Neukirchen, about five miles from Chemnitz. My parents bought a semi-detached house with a large piece of
- [Bob Mackenzie - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie-immigration/) - Bob mentions what he can remember of his journey to Britain and his arrival in Selkirk. He goes on to describe his first introduction to the Mackenzie family of Forres. BM: I’m not sure where we joined the train and to this day I have never found out. Unfortunately there is a complete blank from
- [Bob Mackenzie - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie-settling-in/) - Bob describes his new family, the Mackenzies, and their efforts to get his parents out of Germany. BM: Mr Mackenzie’s house consisted of the main house and a small attached cottage. The Mackenzie family were made up of Granny Mackenzie, Mr Mackenzie (a widower) and three daughters; Agnes, Janet and Jessie. The family lived in
- [Bob Mackenzie - Life During the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie-life-during-the-war/) - Bob loses his German but becomes proficient in English. BM:Once the war started we were only allowed to write twenty-five words per month through the Red Cross. When war broke out Janet joined the Land Army and Jessie looked after the house. So over the years one can say that Jessie virtually brought us up.
- [Bob Mackenzie - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie-integration/) - Bob starts work and moves to Renfrew as an apprentice mechanical engineer. He changes his name to Mackenzie to thank the family who rescued his sister and him. He learns about the survival of his parents and the death of his grandfather. He marries and then joins the RAF. He describes his mother’s first visit
- [Bob Mackenzie - Discovering Sarok and Bob’s Return to his Childhood Home](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie-discovering-sarok-and-bobs-return-to-his-childhood-home/) - In 1990, near the end of my service, I was working on a contract in the Outer Hebrides when I saw a letter in The Sunday Post asking if anyone knew anything about the Kindertransport to contact the person below. Coming home for the weekend, I phoned the number listed and spoke to Dorrith Sim.[Dorrith
- [Bob Mackenzie - Reflection on Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-mackenzie-reflection-on-life/) - Bob talks about the reasons he sees himself as Scottish and reflects on his good fortune in life. INT: You sound so much like just an average Scots person, you really do. Do you think of yourself at all as German anymore? BM: No INT: Not at all? BM: Not a bit. INT: When did
- [Edith Forrester - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/edith-forrester-life-before-the-war/) - Edith describes her family background and how she felt when her mother told her she was leaving Germany. She explains that she was too young to realise that her parents were not coming with her. She tells the interviewer about the Gestapo’s visit to her home. She then speaks about the fate of her Jewish
- [Edith Forrester - Immigration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/edith-forrester-immigration/) - Edith describes her journey to Britain and arriving in London. She then talks about arriving in Scotland and meeting the gentleman and lady who soon became her beloved Mum and Dad. INT: So how did you come to Scotland then? How did that happen? EF: Well, when we arrived…I’d never been on a boat before
- [Edith Forrester - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/edith-forrester-settling-in/) - Edith talks about her new life in Kirkcaldy and her education. She describes her reaction when she finally met her birth father again. INT: And what about going to school after that? EF: Well that was… INT: You still only spoke German? EF: Yes, well they put me in the infant class to learn English
- [Edith Forrester - Reflection On Life](https://gatheringthevoices.com/edith-forrester-reflection-on-life/) - Edith describes the many highpoints in her life and her one main regret. INT: And have you ever wanted to go back to Germany since? Since that last meeting with your father? EF: No, no. I did go with a couple of groups when we took students and I had a very good head of
- [Claire Singerman](https://gatheringthevoices.com/claire-singerman/) - I knew it was important to ensure that the experiences of those who suffered because of the Nazis should never be forgotten and I have learned much from listening to the words of the many people we have interviewed. It is remarkable that all tell their stories calmly and without bitterness. Still they cannot forget
- [David Shapiro](https://gatheringthevoices.com/david-shapiro/) - 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
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- [Esperance David - Before the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-before-the-war/) - Int: Today is the 18th May 2015, and we are here to interview Esperance David. Hello Esperance. ED: Hello. Int: Could you begin and tell us when you were born? ED: The 7th of May, 1929. (laughter). Int: Where were you born? And what was your name at birth? ED: I was born in Baghdad,
- [Esperance David - During the War in the early 40’s](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-during-the-war-in-the-early-40s/) - ED: Well there was a very bad persecution when I was there, when I was about ten, eleven years old, in the early 40’s, when we had a terrible uprising. That was awful. It started one afternoon and my cousin came, they usually came at any time, and he said, shouting, "Batten [down] your windows
- [Esperance David - In London in 1948](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-in-london-in-1948/) - INT: So you were in London, and you're sending letters to your parents? ED: Well that came after INT: Could they tell you about what was happening in Baghdad? ED: No, no. In, [they ]kind of, covered [up], what do you call it, enigmatic? INT: Code? ED: Yeah, very little. But I did something that
- [Esperance David - Baghdad Pogrom 1941](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-baghdad-pogrom-1941/) - INT: Can I ask you, again, about the pogrom that you lived through, as a child? Do you think that was directly related to what was happening in Europe? ED: Yes, because my dad says, and I have a vision of that, although I don't remember seeing it, about half a dozen Gestapo people walked
- [Esperance David - In the 50’s in Baghdad](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-in-the-50s-in-baghdad/) - So the regent and his family were killed by that coup [in 1958] by them [by the Revolutionists], because there was a coup in the government at that time. So, from a kingdom, that was done away, literally done away, killed all of them, and they established the republic and, from then on, it became
- [Esperance David - The family in Israel](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-the-family-in-israel/) - INT: So your family were in Israel, they're building a life up. So, were they with other Iraqis? Were they a community in Iraq? ED: Well yes, as I was saying, they were all told to leave and take 50 [pounds]. No matter what you had, house or anything. And when I was in Israel,
- [Esperance David - Life for Esperance in England](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-life-for-esperance-in-england/) - INT: So you must, you were in Britain… INT: They were in Israel, building the, when did you see them again? ED: 1953. INT: So, you studied? ED: I finished my study, then I was teaching. INT: Oh you were a teacher? ED: I was teaching. INT: In London? ED: In London, I was teaching
- [Esperance David - Life with her husband David](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-life-with-her-husband-david/) - INT: We haven't heard about your husband, how did you meet him? ED: Well, that's a long story, isn't it? [Laughter]. ED: Well, while I was in Israel on my first visit, I was staying with my mum and dad, obviously, but my brother got married and his wife was five months' pregnant and they
- [Esperance David - In Scotland](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-in-scotland/) - INT: Yeah, and he got a job in Scotland in what year? ED: Well David was still doing his apprenticeship but to have an Honours degree wasn't enough to be a chartered engineer, so there was a big concern, an electrical factory, the Brush [Electrical Engineering Company], so he was doing it there, and I
- [Esperance David - Integration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-integration/) - INT: Did you find it easy to integrate into Scottish society, or did you feel different? ED: Jewish society or anything? INT: Jewish and the wider society. ED: Well, the wider society, I went back to work when we had another… INT2: You had a son in between all that. ED: A son in between,
- [Esperance David - Reflection](https://gatheringthevoices.com/esperance-david-reflection/) - INT: Did you like Scotland? ED: Yes, I think so. They were more open, you know. I worked in a school in Scotland, in East Kilbride. That came after, really, Sandhurst wasn't it? And they were very, very nice, you know. The headmaster was nice, a retired army officer, sergeant major, so the school was
- [Dorrith Sim - Story Video](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dorrith-sim-story-video/)
- [Erna Grace - Before the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/erna-grace-before-the-war/) - INTERVIEWER Good afternoon Erna. Today is the 9th February 2022 and I'm here with Myrna to have a wee chat with you this afternoon. Thank you very much for having us in your lovely, lovely flat. So first of all, I was going to ask you Erna, what was your name at birth? and when
- [Erna Grace - During the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/erna-grace-during-the-war/) - INTERVIEWER So, you came up to Glasgow, and so where did you live in Glasgow? ERNA That's when they took me straight to Nurse Livingstone then. INTERVIEWER And where about did Nurse Livingston stay. ERNA She stayed in Stamperland, Stamperland Hill, and she had bought this house. There wasn’t much room. I slept in the
- [Erna Grace - Settling In](https://gatheringthevoices.com/erna-grace-settling-in/) - INTERVIEWER So, you went to Netherlee Primary School, and what happened after Netherlee Primary School? ERNA Well, I left school at 14. I was a year at Eastwood, the old Eastwood and then went into hairdressing. INTERVIEWER Which is why your hair is always lovely. ERNA No, I go to the hairdresser. INTERVIEWER But from
- [Erna Grace - Intergration](https://gatheringthevoices.com/erna-grace-intergration/) - ERNA I loved that, I loved mixing with all the girls, and we went dancing to the Plaza on a Tuesday. INTERVIEWER And how did you meet your husband? ERNA There was a place called the ‘Jewish Institute’ in the Gorbals and everybody went on a Sunday, and he had just come out the Air
- [Erna Grace - Reflection](https://gatheringthevoices.com/erna-grace-reflection/) - ERNA I think when I had my children. Children are my life still. My daughter looks after me so much I am very lucky. Some children don’t even want to look after their parents. INTERVIEWER And it's wonderful also for you that Suzanne is in the same town as well. ERNA Yes, yes. Oh, she
- [Erna Grace - Podcast](https://gatheringthevoices.com/erna-grace-podcast/) - Listen to the transcript of the Erna Grace Interview in a podcast format. To view all our podcasts at Gathering the Voices, please visit our Spotify Channel. Gathering the Voices | Podcast on Spotify
- [Erna Grace - Photos](https://gatheringthevoices.com/erna-grace-photos/)
- [The Common Good Comics](https://gatheringthevoices.com/common-good-comics-project/) - The Common Good Comic explains the background to the Gathering the Voices Project and the six people who are the trustee.
- [Dany Metzstein - Interview](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dany-metzstein-interview/) - Int All right. Okay, let's go. So good afternoon, Dany lovely to see you Today is the 16th of June 2023. And I'm here to interview you which is very nice of you. So normally how we start, Dany is to ask you an embarrassing question is when you were born, and what your name
- [Dany Metztein - Podcast](https://gatheringthevoices.com/dany-metztein-podcast/) - Dany Metzstein (Danielle Kahn) was born in Montpellier, France in 1942. Her parents were in hiding and her father was involved with the Maquis. They survived the war in France, but then Dany had to stay in an orphanage and a boarding school. She came to live in Motherwell, Scotland, and enjoyed being a teenager
- [Alice Malcolm - Video Interview](https://gatheringthevoices.com/alice-malcolm-video-interview/)
- [Alice Malcolm - Life Before the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/alice-malcolm-life-before-the-war/) - INT: Alice Malcolm, in her house in Giffnock on Tuesday the 11th of March and you’re going to tell me your name, your age… AM: 2014. INT: 2014. You’re going to tell me your name and your age and then we are going to, basically, talk about your life story. So go for it. AM:
- [Bob Kutner - Life Before The War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-kutner-life-before-the-war/) - In this section Bob describes his childhood. He was born in Germany into a Polish-Jewish family. The family moved to France and then to Italy when Hitler came to power in 1933. INT2: When were you born and what was your name when you were born? BK: My name was Norbert Kutner, and I was
- [Eva Szirmai - Video Interview](https://gatheringthevoices.com/eva-szirmai-video-interview/)
- [Bob Kutner - Video Interview](https://gatheringthevoices.com/bob-kutner-video-interview/)
- [Eva Miller](https://gatheringthevoices.com/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
- [Where Our Stories Met](https://gatheringthevoices.com/where-our-stories-met/) - Dany & Isi Metzstein Where our stories met Comic & Youtube Videos Where our Stories Met In 2025, St Andrew's and St Bride's High School pupils in East Kilbride worked collaboratively with Magic Torch Comics to produce a graphic novel about the lives of Isi and Dany Metzstein. They used pre-existing testimonies recorded with Isi
- [Martin Anson – Childhood Test](https://gatheringthevoices.com/martin-anson-childhood-test/) - [gtv_testimony_v2]
- [Mobile Exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/) - Discover our portable Holocaust exhibition featuring survivor stories. Available for schools, libraries, and community centres across Scotland.
- [Contact Us](https://gatheringthevoices.com/contact-us/) - We welcome any comments, questions or feedback about the Gathering the Voices project. Please email info@gatheringthevoices.com or use the form below. We have volunteer holocaust speakers who are available to go to schools, youth organisations, libraries etc to explain our families personal connection with these events and talk about the survivors finding sanctuary in Scotland, and
- [Podcasts](https://gatheringthevoices.com/podcasts/) - Listen to the Gathering the Voices podcast series. Inspiring oral histories and recent interviews with survivors who escaped Nazi persecution for Scotland.
- [Education](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education/) - Exhibition Testimony History Resources Germany & Nazis 1924-1939 Powerpoints Being a refugee
- [Resources](https://gatheringthevoices.com/resources/) - Renate’s Book Of Letters Ullmann Family Papers Martin Ansbacher Letter Newspapers Articles Common Good Comics Glossary Pat Anson Letters Links
- [Words you can find](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/words-can-you-find-written-and-oral/) - Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links. Words you can find (Oral) (PDF) Words you can find (Written) (PDF)
- [Words can you find (written and oral)](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/words-can-you-find-written-and-oral/) - Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [What Is A Testimony?](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/general/what-is-a-testimony/) - Introduction When I engage with others, I can respond in ways appropriate to my role, show that I value others’ contributions and use these to build on thinking. LIT 2-02a Slides 6-16 examine how and why oral testimony is so important; it occurs on a daily basis in classrooms when children tell tales or some
- [What impact did the holocaust have on individual lives?](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/religious-moral-education/what-impact-did-the-holocaust-have-on-individual-lives/) - The HOLOCAUST claimed the lives of around six million Jews. Some survivors made their homes in Scotland. One of them DORRITH SIM lived in the west of Scotland for many years. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
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- [Volunteer Speakers](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/volunteer-speakers/) - We also have volunteer Holocaust speakers who are available to go to schools, youth organisations, libraries etc to explain our families’ personal connection with these events, and talk about the survivors finding sanctuary in Scotland, and rebuilding their lives in their new home country. Volunteer speakers provided free of charge, contribution to reimburse traveling expenses
- [Upper Secondary School](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/upper-secondary-school/) - Resource list of materials, lesson plans and downloads To get started, please select one of the themes/subject areas from the menu to view a list of relevant resources. You can also select from one of the recently added resources below, or use the SEARCH function to find specific resources.
- [Test1](https://gatheringthevoices.com/test1/) - Test1
- [Susan Singerman](https://gatheringthevoices.com/newspapers-articles/susan-singerman/) - The following items were published in the 1960’s and were the first time Susan Singerman spoke about her experiences. They are reproduced with permission of Herald and Times Group and by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow City Council www.glasgowlife.org.uk [envira-gallery id="2775"]
- [Social Studies](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/) - Resource List Using Oral History to learn about the Past Examining Testimonies (Gretl's Story) Wide-ranging Power Point focussing on a specific testimony to put into context an individual’s experience. (Covers historical background; prejudice; evacuation; evaluation of historical evidence). Pre-War History How did the Nazis ensure that the youth of Nazi Germany were exposed to Nazi
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- [Resource List](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/resource-list/) - Visiting the Exhibition? A list of questions to use with Children Teachers may use these examples of Questions to enrich their pupils experience of visiting the exhibition. A guide to the educational context of the exhibition A presentation on the educational context of the Gathering the Voices exhibition Mobile Exhibition Worksheets These worksheets provide some
- [Religious & Moral Education](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/religious-moral-education/) - Resource List The HOLOCAUST claimed the lives of around six million Jews. Some survivors made their homes in Scotland. One of them DORRITH SIM lived in the west of Scotland for many years.
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- [Pre War History](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/pre-war-history/) - How did the Nazis ensure that the youth of Nazi Germany were exposed to Nazi ideas? How did they use the youth of Germany to spread Nazi values/ideas? Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [People, Past Events And Societies](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/people-past-events-and-societies/) - Social Studies - People, Past Events And Societies; Language and Literacy; Expressive Arts; Primary and Lower Secondary Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [Nuremburg laws](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/nuremburg-laws/) - The Nuremburg Laws were the anti-Semitic laws introduced in Nazi Germany to help bureaucrats distinguish Jews from Mischlinge (mixed race persons) and Aryans. Nuremberg laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have a relationship with Aryans or employ young Aryan women as household help. (An Aryan being a person of Germanic heritage).
- [Mobile Exhibition Worksheets](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/mobile-exhibition-worksheets/) - Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links. gtv_exhibitfind_the_date-w_sheet-2-cmackay gtv_exhibitfind_the_photo_w_sheet-1-cmackay
- [Marion Camrass](https://gatheringthevoices.com/newspapers-articles/marion-camrass/) - The creation of the serious game, ‘Marion’s Journey’ by students and graduates of Glasgow Caledonian University has attracted a lot of recent attention in the local and national press. A selection of cuttings are available to view below (please click on each small image to view a larger version of the article) some of the
- [Learning Across The Curriculum](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/upper-secondary-school/learning-across-the-curriculum/) - Resource List The people who have been interviewed for this project came from a number of countries. Their experience of the Holocaust and that of people in other countries could vary a great deal. Studying the Holocaust within the Curriculum in Scotland With recent changes to the National Curriculum in Scotland secondary schools are encouraged
- [Languages, Literacy & English](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/languages-literacy-english/) - Resource List The HOLOCAUST claimed the lives of around six million Jews. Some survivors made their homes in Scotland. One of them DORRITH SIM lived in the west of Scotland for many years. Being a stranger, From Danger to Safety, From Dark to Light Ways to look at the challenges facing refugees and immigrants. Being
- [Ideas and links for pupil activities](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/general/ideas-and-links-for-pupil-activities/) - Plan a trip by train from Vienna to Glasgow via London. To make the task more challenging find an alternative to the Channel Tunnel and include times and costs. The following website is a good place to start - http://www.thetrainline.com/ Map and annotate the journeys of some of the other people whose voices have been
- [History Of Germany Pre-War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/upper-secondary-school/history-of-germany-pre-war/) - Resource List Powerpoint presentation about Adolf Hitler and the events and ideas that shaped his philosophy and led to his rise as leader of the Nazi party. 2. The Nazi Party 1924 - 1929 The Nazi Party did not exist in 1920 and enjoyed little mass support in the 1930s. But by 1932 it was
- [Health & Wellbeing](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/health-wellbeing/) - Resource List Using Oral History to learn about the Past Ideas and links for pupil activities Some ideas for pupil activities with links to supporting resources. Learning a New Language and Fitting in to a Different Way of Life Provides useful activities providing insight into coping with new challenges.
- [Global Citizenship](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/global-citizenship/) - Resource List Ways to look at the challenges facing refugees and immigrants. Being a Stranger - Kindertransport Activities General ideas for lessons and activities for Primary/Lower Secondary pupils based on The Kindertransport Learning a New Language and Fitting into a Different Way of Life Provides useful activities providing insight into coping with new challenges.
- [Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra](https://gatheringthevoices.com/newspapers-articles/glasgow-south-and-eastwood-extra/) - The Glasgow South and Eastwood Extra ran a story on Friday 30 January 2015 entitled ‘Those Who Thrived and Survived’ about the Gathering the Voices travelling exhibition. It also features an interview with Steven Anson. http://www.glasgowsouthandeastwoodextra.co.uk/news/local-headlines/those-who-survived-and-thrived-1-3672460
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- [General ideas for secondary history lessons](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/general-ideas-for-secondary-history-lessons/) - Preparation for examining testimony: Examining testimony- ideas for approaching and dealing with testimony: Before examining survivor testimony, pupils should create a large class timeline detailing significant events from 1933-45 detailing Nazi persecution of the Jews of Europe. Split the class into small groups. Each group has a different survivor testimony to examine. Give each group
- [General](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/general/) - Resource List Teachers may use these examples of Questions to enrich their pupils experience of visiting the exhibition. What is a Testimony? Using Oral History to learn about the Past Being a stranger, From Danger to Safety, From Dark to Light Ways to look at the challenges facing refugees and immigrants. Being a Stranger -
- [Gathering the voices preparation](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/gathering-the-voices-preparation/) - Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [Expressive Arts](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/expressive-arts/) - Resource List Using Oral History to learn about the Past Being a Stranger - Kindertransport Activities General ideas for lessons and activities for Primary/Lower Secondary pupils based on The Kindertransport Ideas and links for pupil activities Some ideas for pupil activities with links to supporting resources. People, past events and societies Using testimonies to learn
- [Exhibition Exercises](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/exhibition-exercises/) - Resource List What can you find ? Look for these people or things in the exhibition Example Exercises for pupils viewing the mobile exhibition These worksheets provide some example exercises for pupils viewing the mobile exhibition.
- [Example Questions for Teachers](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/examples-of-questions/) - Teachers may use these examples of Questions to enrich their pupil’s experience of visiting the exhibition. Please remember the exhibition gives only a small taste of what can be found when you go to the website - gatheringthevoices.com Relevant photograph numbers follow the questions Examples of Questions BEFORE THE WAR - 1930s Look carefully at
- [Example Exercises for pupils viewing the mobile exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/example-exercises-for-pupils-viewing-the-mobile-exhibition/) - Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [Examining Testimonies (Gretl's Story)](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/examining-testimonies-gretls-story/) - Introduction Slides 5-13 begin to focus on the life of Gretl. Creating a time line of European/world events during her lifetime should create a context for life before and after the World War Two and emphasise the quality of life Gretl was able to experience throughout her long life because of her escape from Austria
- [Evelyn Strang](https://gatheringthevoices.com/newspapers-articles/evelyn-strang/) - Evelyn’s grandparents remained hidden in Berlin throughout the war and indeed survived the war. Mrs Altwein, Evelyn’s grandmother was asked to look after the little girl by the American soldier. ‘Little Bella’ went to live with the American soldier’s sister’s family. [envira-gallery id="2770"]
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- [Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald](https://gatheringthevoices.com/newspapers-articles/ardrossan-and-saltcoats-herald/) - The Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald featured an article about the travelling exhibition on Wednesday the 18th February. [envira-gallery id="2785"]
- [Applications](https://gatheringthevoices.com/applications/) - Name: Mapping the Journey: Gathering the Voices Developer: Brian McDonald Description: This application attempts to show the accounts of holocaust survivors from a geographical point of view. This will give the user a sense of the distances that have been traveled by the survivor until their eventual destination in Scotland. The user is first presented
- [Activity a refugee coming to Scotland written or oral](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/activity-a-refugee-coming-to-scotland-written-or-oral/) - Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [A guide to the educational context of the exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/a-guide-to-the-educational-context-of-the-exhibition/)
- [8. THE ROLE OF HITLER](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/8-the-role-of-hitler/) - Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [9. WHY WERE THE NAZIS ABLE TO STAY IN POWER 1933 -1939?](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/9-why-were-the-nazis-able-to-stay-in-power-1933-1939/) - This Power Point identifies the means by which the Nazis were able to ensure they kept a tight grip on power in the years 1933 -1939. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [7. CONSOLIDATION OF POWER](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/7-consolidation-of-power/) - This Power Point describes the methods used by the Nazis to consolidate power. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [6. FROM CHANCELLOR TO DICTATOR](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/6-from-chancellor-to-dictator/) - This Power Point identifies the moves made by the Nazis that very quickly ensured they destroyed the last vestiges of democracy in Germany. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [5. HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/5-hitler-becomes-chancellor/) - This Power Point examines the reasons why, despite their suspicions, the conservative elite decided to make Hitler Chancellor. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [3. THE WALL STREET CRASH AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/3-the-wall-street-crash-and-the-great-depression/) - This Power Point provides an insight into the economic crisis, which is essential in explaining why extremism on both the left and the right became more likely. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [4. THE APPEAL OF THE NAZIS AFTER 1929](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/4-the-appeal-of-the-nazis-after-1929/) - This Power Point provides the students with an overview of the factors that increased the popularity of Hitler and the Nazi Party in the early 1930s. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [2. The nazi party 1924 - 1929](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/2-the-nazi-party-1924-1929/) - This Power Point provides a brief history of the early years of the Nazi Party including the Munich Putsch and shows how Hitler was able to gain complete domination of the Party. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [16. HOW DID THE NAZIS PERSECUTE THE JEWS?](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/16-how-did-the-nazis-persecute-the-jews/) - This Power Point examines the increasing levels of persecution faced by the Jews of Germany from 1933 onwards. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [15. WHY DID THE NAZIS PERSECUTE THE JEWS?](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/15-why-did-the-nazis-persecute-the-jews/) - This Power Point provides a consideration of the reasons why the Nazis adopted racist policies and in particular focussed on the Jews. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [13. YOUTH AND EDUCATION IN NAZI GERMANY](https://gatheringthevoices.com/13-youth-and-education-in-nazi-germany/) - This Power Point discusses the Nazi attitude to the young and their means of creating support from young people and, in the long term, a pliable military force. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [14. CO-OPERATION AND OPPOSITION IN NAZI GERMANY](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/14-co-operation-and-opposition-in-nazi-germany/) - This Power Point considers both those who co-operated with the state and the difficulties that faced those who opposed the regime. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [12. PROPAGANDA](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/12-propaganda/) - Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [11. WHY WERE THE NAZIS ABLE TO STAY IN POWER? NAZI ECONOMIC POLICY](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/11-why-were-the-nazis-able-to-stay-in-power-nazi-economic-policy/) - Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [1. Who was hitler and who were the nazis](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/1-who-was-hitler-and-who-were-the-nazis/) - This Power Point provides a short biography of Hitler and background regarding the creation of the Nazi Party. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
- [10. FEAR AND STATE TERRORISM](https://gatheringthevoices.com/education-materials/primary-lower-secondary-school/social-studies/10-fear-and-state-terrorism/) - This Power Point examines the forces used by the Nazis to prevent the rise of any significant opposition. It provides an insight into the creation of a Police State. Downloads We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links.
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- [Homepage Test](https://gatheringthevoices.com/homepage-test/) - ❮ ❯ Stories of Holocaust refugees who escaped Nazi persecution Discover the personal journeys of those who rebuilt their lives in Scotland, sharing their memories and contributions to their new home. Discover the Voices Suzanne - The Game An interactive experience based on the true story of Suzanne Ullman. Through gameplay and testimony, witness her
- [Being a refugee](https://gatheringthevoices.com/using-our-materials/being-a-refugee/) - Being a Refugee Learning A New Language And Fitting In To A Different Way Of Life These activities use Dorrith Sim’s testimony and her book ‘In my Pocket’ to develop language skills and cultural awareness. Watch Video Download PDF Being A Stranger, From Danger To Safety, From Dark To Light Curriculum for Excellence seeks to
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- [Links](https://gatheringthevoices.com/links/) - Below you will find a list of links to organisations relevant to the Gathering the Voices project: Erika’s Suitcase project The Erika’s Suitcase project began in 2021. Funded by the Scottish SchoolLibrary Improvement Fund; S1 and S2 pupils at Harlaw Academy and CultsAcademy found out about Erika Schulhof Rybeck, a young Austrian girl whocame to
- [Suzanne Game](https://gatheringthevoices.com/suzanne-game/) - Suzanne - The Game Suzanne is a light puzzle-platformer inspired by the true story of Suzanne Ullman’s experiences in Budapest during the Holocaust. Incorporating her real-life spoken testimony, the game brings her story to life in a unique and innovative way. It was developed in collaboration with Gathering the Voices. The game was developed by
- [GTV Labs](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtv-labs/) - Alpha Service GTV Labs We are building tools based on the data Gathering The Voices has published from the last 10 years. This is a work-in-progress project Map Testimonial 2025-2026 Project is to build a map of all the testimonal data we have. Map Button Overlay Button
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- [History Resources](https://gatheringthevoices.com/using-our-materials/history-resources/) - General Ideas for Secondary History Lessons General Ideas for Secondary History Lessons (PDF) The Nuremburg Laws The Nuremburg Laws were the anti-Semitic laws introduced in Nazi Germany to help bureaucrats distinguish Jews from Mischlinge (mixed race persons) and Aryans.Nuremberg laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have a relationship with Aryans or
- [Exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/using-our-materials/exhibition-testimony/) - Exhibition A guide to the educational context of the Gathering the Voices exhibition Worksheets for pupils to use when visiting the exhibition. Visiting the Exhibition? A list of questions to use with Children Download PDF Example Exercises for pupils viewing the mobile exhibition The worksheet provide some example exercises for pupils viewing the mobile exhibition.
- [Marion’s Journey](https://gatheringthevoices.com/marions-journey/) - Marion’s Journey The exciting online experience follows the flight of Marion Camrass during the Second World War from occupied Poland, through Siberia, then Bukhara and finally to Glasgow where she settled, married and raised her family. Play the game online now Launch the Game The development of the game has been kindly supported by Tutorial
- [Germany & Nazis 1924-1939 Power points](https://gatheringthevoices.com/using-our-materials/germany-nazis-1924-1939/) - Germany & Nazis 1924-1939Power points 1. Who Was Hitler and Who Were the Nazis This Power Point provides a short biography of Hitler and background regarding the creation of the Nazi Party. Download Power point 2. The Nazi Party 1924 - 1939 This Power Point provides a brief history of the early years of the
- [Testimony](https://gatheringthevoices.com/using-our-materials/testimony/) - Testimony Gathering the Voices Preparation The power point below asks questions about the importance of preserving testimony and prepares pupils for learning using the Gathering the Voices website. Why is it important to remember? What is testimony? What can we learn from testimony? Why is it important to preserve testimony? Gathering the Voices Preparation (PDF)
- [Glossary](https://gatheringthevoices.com/glossary/) - Listed here are the meanings to some of the words, terms and phrases that appear on the Gathering The Voices website. For more information, please visit the following links: A Teachers’s Guide to the Holocaust by Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida (c) 2005: available at : https://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/resource/glossary.htm#i Holocaust Encyclopedia
- [Martin Ansbacher Letter](https://gatheringthevoices.com/martin-ansbacher-letter/) - Letter written by Martin Ansbacher to Senior Prosecutor Schuize-Brachmann Click the image below to see the full letter
- [Newspapers Articles](https://gatheringthevoices.com/newspapers-articles/) - Newspapers Articles Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg-Swabia Newsletter
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- [Costs & Technical Requirements](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/costs-technical-requirements-2/) - The cost of hire is £295 (provisional price) for 35 miles radius from Glasgow City Centre - outwith this area price on application. The exhibition is offered on a not-for-profit basis. The price quoted covers the expenses involved with the exhibition stand transportation and set-up. Price includes supply, transportation, assembly, take-down, return transportation, insurance. Payment
- [Araranka and Margit Vulkan - To Safety in Scotland](https://gatheringthevoices.com/araranka-and-margit-vulkan-to-safety-in-scotland/) - After Austria’s ‘Anschluss’ to Germany in March 1938 there were desperate attempts by the Jewish population to escape, but most countries became firmly closed to Jewish refugees. In the case of the UK limited entries were available to trained domestic servants, and later after Kristallnacht in November 1938, to 10,000 unaccompanied children aged between 6
- [Costs & Technical Requirements](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/costs-technical-requirements/) - The cost of hire is £295 (provisional price) for 35 miles radius from Glasgow City Centre – outwith this area price on application. The exhibition is offered on a not-for-profit basis. The price quoted covers the expenses involved with the exhibition stand transportation and set-up. Price includes supply, transportation, assembly, take-down, return transportation, insurance. Payment
- [New Homepage](https://gatheringthevoices.com/new-homepage/) - [smartslider3 slider="2"] Gathering the voices is one of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust. The websites unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimony.
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- [Using our Materials](https://gatheringthevoices.com/using-our-materials/) - Using Our Materials We are providing a variety of educational materials, which will make the Gathering the Voices website really helpful to teachers and their pupils. You will find here PowerPoint presentations, lesson plans, worksheets, interactive games, and activities. You can explore the testimonies and discover which ones are most useful for your purposes. We
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- [testimonies portfolio](https://gatheringthevoices.com/testimonies-portfolio/)
- [About Us](https://gatheringthevoices.com/about-us-2/) - Our Aims To gather audio and video testimonies from Holocaust refugees about their experiences before and after they came to Scotland; To make these testimonies available & freely accessible on the World Wide Web.; To educate current and future generations about the resilience of these refugees; To use innovative teaching and learning approaches Contributions This
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- [The victims of the holocaust](https://gatheringthevoices.com/using-our-materials/learning-about-the-holocaust/the-victims-of-the-holocaust/) - The people who have been interviewed for this project came from a number of countries. Their experience of the Holocaust and that of people in other countries could vary a great deal. The download below includes statistics about the geographical origins of Holocaust victims and various ideas for tasks based around these statistics. Downloads [wpdm_package
- [Being a stranger - kindertransport activities](https://gatheringthevoices.com/using-our-materials/learning-about-the-holocaust/being-a-stranger-kindertransport-activities/) - How did the children arrive? Pictures of types of transport Ports Look at maps. Look at website to find experience. Ask for key search words port, station, map Settling in 1. Family 2. Language 3. Housing Final 1.Pupils listen to a testimony then give a presentation Include Why they left their countryHow this person
- [Visiting the Exhibition? A list of questions to use with Children](https://gatheringthevoices.com/mobile-exhibition-old/visiting-the-exhibition-a-list-of-questions-to-use-with-children/) - By: Hilary Anson Teachers may use these examples of Questions to enrich their pupils experience of visiting the exhibition. Downloads [wpdm_package id='4455'] We would be very grateful if you could Contact Us if you find any broken links. If you are having difficulty with the downloads, please right-click and select save as on the download
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## Timeline Events

- [Nürnberg Race Laws Passed](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/nurnberg-race-laws-passed/)
- [Kindertransport](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/kindertransport/)
- [Public Burning of “un-German” books.](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/public-burning-of-un-german-books/)
- [Memorial in Vienna to Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/memorial-in-vienna-to-austrian-jews-who-died-in-the-holocaust/)
- [German army occupies Hungary](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/german-army-occupies-hungary/)
- [First big defeat of German army](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/first-big-defeat-of-germany-army/)
- [Adolf Eichmann establishes the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/adolf-eichmann-establishes/)
- [Life in Vienna](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/gretl-shapiro/)
- [Oswiecim (Auschwitz)](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/oswiecim-auschwitz/)
- [Germany invades Poland](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/germany-invades-poland/)
- [Enabling Act is passed Hitler given dictatorial powers](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/enabling-act-is-passed-hitler-given-dictatorial-powers/)
- [The Sunday Morning March](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/11213/)
- [Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/adolf-hitler-becomes-chancellor-of-germany/)
- [Post War 1945](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/post-war-1945/)
- [Pre War 1938](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/pre-war-1938/)
- [Germany surrenders unconditionally](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/germany-surrenders-unconditionally/)
- [British forces to enter Bergen-Belsen](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/british-forces-to-enter-bergen-belsen/)
- [Baghdad Pogrom 1941](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/baghdad-pogrom-1941/)
- [Russian Army liberates Auschwitz](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/russian-army-liberates-auschwitz/)
- [The Wannsee Conference](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/the-wannsee-conference/)
- [German Army invades Russia Mass murders of Jews begin in Soviet territories](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/german-army-invades-russia-mass-murders-of-jews-begin-in-soviet-territories/)
- [Global War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/global-war/)
- [Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/kristallnacht-night-of-broken-glass/)
- [Ruth Fraser – Life Before the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/ruth-fraser-life-before-the-war/)
- [Dachau Concentration Camp Opens](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/dachau-concentration-camp-opens/)
- [United States Enters the War](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/united-states-enters-the-war/)
- [Treblinka](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/treblinka/)
- [Judenfrei (free of Jews)](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/judenfrei-free-of-jews/)
- [Mass Extermination](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/mass-extermination/)
- [Hitler Announces in the Reichstag](https://gatheringthevoices.com/timeline_event/hitler-announces-in-the-reichstag/)

## News Stories

- [Digital Memory Lab](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/digital-memory-lab/) - Throughout the autumn 2025 Lab Director Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden from the Landecker Digital Memory Lab continued to record research interviews and walkthroughs for their Digital Memory Database. This included fieldwork in Glasgow, Scotland focused on exploring the work of Gathering the Voices. Here, she recorded interviews with those involved in the organisation’s testimony collection, computer games, and digital
- [Game focusing on realities of the Holocaust wins award](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/game-focusing-on-realities-of-the-holocaust-wins-award/) - A game created by Glasgow Caledonian graduates has won a top gaming award during Scottish Games Week. Marion’s Journey, a redesigned educational computer game focusing on the harsh realities of the Holocaust won the Creativity Award at the Scottish Games Awards, which are organised by the Scottish Games Network. The game is an interactive story tailored to the oral testimony
- [Playing the Holocaust II with Angela and Brian](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/playing-the-holocaust-ii-with-angela-and-brian/) - Presentation from the 2nd Playing the Holocaust discussion hosted by the Digital Holocaust Memory project in 2021. Watch videos from the 1st discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... For more content from the Digital Holocaust Memory project: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalh...
- [Finding Moniek’s Family - The Podcast](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/finding-monieks-family-the-podcast/) - Moniek Garber lived for years believing he was his family’s sole Holocaust survivor. At a meeting in Glasgow held by The Association of Jewish Refugees, he told genealogist Michael Tobias that his family tree had ended. Listen to the new Gathering the Voices podcast to hear how Michael uses 30 years of expertise and DNA analysis to uncover lost Jewish family history and challenge the
- [Holocaust survivor relives the moment he arrived in Glasgow after fleeing Nazi Germany to educate kids](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/holocaust-survivor-relives-the-moment-he-arrived-in-glasgow-after-fleeing-nazi-germany-to-educate-kids/) - A Holocaust survivor has relived the memory of arriving in Scotland after escaping Nazi Germany to educate school pupils about the Second World War. Henry Wuga, 98, returned to Glasgow Central Station to share his story with youths. He joined Poppyscotland and Gathering the Voices to help launch new lessons for Scottish schools, based on his story
- [Gathering the Voices featured on BBC Scotland's Inside Central Station](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/gathering-the-voices-featured-on-bbc-scotlands-inside-central-station/) - Henry Wuga and Marion Camrass were interviewed by Angela Shapiro and Claire Singerman for the programme Inside Central Station. Henry talked about his journey on the Kindertransport from Nurnberg to Glasgow. He also gave an insight into his life as a chef and even brought in menus from the 1940’s. Marion had her audience spellbound
- [Judith Rosenberg - Scotland’s last Auschwitz survivor leaves £500,000 gift to Strathclyde University](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/judith-rosenberg-scotlands-last-auschwitz-survivor-leaves-500000-gift-to-strathclyde-university/) - Judith Rosenberg has recently given a most generous gift to Strathclyde University. Her donation will go towards the creation of the Harold and Judith Rosenberg Chair in Quantum Technology and the Harold and Judith Rosenberg Quantum Technology Laboratories in their honour. The Harold and Judith Rosenberg Chair in Quantum Technology will be funded for an
- [Dr Angela Shapiro presents to the Queens Cross Housing Association](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/dr-angela-shapiro-presents-to-the-queens-cross-housing-association/) - Food for Thought is a free engaging and informative talk series on research which is relevant to people’s lives followed by dinner and discussion in community venues in North Glasgow.
- [Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce Spring 2021](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/ayrshire-chamber-of-commerce-spring-2021/) - During the school year, we had a request to support Auchenharvie Academy with the Holocaust topic within History. We approached Gathering the Voices, a charity whose 6 volunteers have gather testimonies from Holocaust survivors who, after experiencing Anti-Semitic racial persecution, came to settle in Scotland.
- [Letter from the Scottish Government](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/letter-from-the-scottish-government/) - Recently, Gathering the Voices shared the video Martin Anson with Ms. Aileen Campbell, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government.
- [Video of refugee's life story made available to schools](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/video-of-refugees-life-story-made-available-to-schools/) - Gathering the Voices has made a video telling the story of German refugee Martin Anson journey to finding a new home in Scotland, with Education Scotland agreeing to promote the video to Scottish schools.
- [Jewish Museum Berlin](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/jewish-museum-berlin/) - The Anson family is pleased to report that memorabilia from Steven's late father Martin Ansbacher (Anson) is now being featured in the just opened and remodeled Core Exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB). https://www.jmberlin.de/en/opening-new-core-exhibition Here are photographs of the exhibits featured, and an explanation of what is represented. The first photograph of the group
- [Bob MacKenzie Facebook Interview](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/bob-mackenzie-facebook-interview/) - On Sunday 26th April, Holocaust survivor Bob MacKenzie participated in a live phonecall interview on Facebook Live with Laura Pasternak, a Holocaust Educational Trust Regional Ambassador for Scotland.
- [Food for Thought](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/food-for-thought/) - Queens Cross and Glasgow Caledonian University have joined up to host a new series of free talks where people can learn and debate with experts about important subjects in local community venues. Find out more by attending Food for thought, Thursday 27th February, Windsor Community Hall.
- [Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/holocaust-memorial-lecture-series/) - Glasgow University has kindly agreed to link their website of Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series with the Gathering the Voices website. Every year these lectures are over-subscribed. The Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series was initiated in 2001 by Professor Bernard Wasserstein and Emeritus Professor Otto Hutter, and has since become a key fixture in the University's event
- [East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire’s 2020 Holocaust Memorial Day Event](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/east-renfrewshire-and-renfrewshires-2020-holocaust-memorial-day-event/) - Howard Singerman, one of the founder members of Gathering the Voices, was the keynote speaker at East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire’s 2020 Holocaust Memorial Day event, which this year was commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
- [Saskia Tepe in Southern Arizona](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/saskia-tepe-in-southern-arizona/) - On 5th December, and 9th and 26th January I spoke at three separate 55+ communities in Southern Arizona, to a total of over 150 residents ranging in age from 55 to 80, in order to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and introduce the concept and aims of International Holocaust Memorial Day.
- [75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/75th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-auschwitz/) - Today, The 27th January 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, which was liberated by the Red Army.
- [Judith Rosenberg](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/judith-rosenberg/) - Auschwitz survivor: 'There was no life. We were starving' Judith Rosenberg was 22 when she was put on a cramped train with her Jewish family in the spring of 1944. Together they were transported from Gyor in their native Hungary to Poland where they were immediately split up.
- [Update from Gathering the Voices](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/update-from-gathering-the-voices/) - Gathering the Voices has presented/exhibited at over 90 locations since we commenced this Refugee and Holocaust Testimony project in 2012. We have presented to over 11,000 Scottish pupils and to over 2,000 teachers, lecturers, students and adults. In addition, over 20,000 pupils and 22,000 adults have viewed our unique exhibition.
- [Ingrid Wuga awarded Medal of the Order of the British Empire](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/ingrid-wuga-awarded-medal-of-the-order-of-the-british-empire/) - Her Majesty the Queen has graciously approved the following award for Ingrid Wuga
- [Gathering the Voices Exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/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](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/ucugcu-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
- [Townhouse to host Gathering the Voices exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/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
- [Refugees Testimonies on show](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/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),
- [You won't catch me without a 2CV - by Joe Cent](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/you-wont-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
- [Friends Reunited After Eighty Years!](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/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.
- ['Scotland has really been very good to me'](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/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
- [Stories From Our Memorable Trip To Germany by Steven and Hilary](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/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
- [Gathering the Voices: A Scottish response to teaching about the Holocaust](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/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
- [Calderwood Lodge Primary School](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/calderwood-lodge-primary-school/) - 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
- [GCU recognises inspirational alumna Saskia Tepe](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/gcu-recognises-inspirational-alumna-saskia-tepe/) - 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,
- [Honoured by the First Minister of Scotland](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/honoured-by-the-first-minister-of-scotland/) - 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.
- [Francine Christophe Shares Her Experiences And Memories](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/francine-christophe-shares-her-experiences-and-memories/) - 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.
- [Scottish Parliament - Photographs From The Exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/scottish-parliament-photographs-from-the-exhibition/) - 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.
- [Press Coverage Of 'Marion's Journey' Serious Game](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/press-coverage-of-marions-journey-serious-game/) - 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
- [JOCK TAMSON'S BAIRN](https://gatheringthevoices.com/gtvnews/jock-tamsons-bairn/) - 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

## GTV Podcasts

- [Finding Moniek’s Family - Moniek gives his reaction to Michael’s work. 6/6](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/finding-monieks-family-moniek-gives-his-reaction-to-michaels-work-6-6/) - Moniek gives his reaction to Michael’s work.This is episode 6 of 6 of a mini series - Due to popular request we are releasing all six episodes.At a meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, organised by The Association of Jewish Refugees, he heard Michael Tobias OBE, who is a genealogist, offer to trace family members. He said sadly to Michael that he did not think that Michael could help him. Michael Tobias is an award-winning professional genealogist specialising in Jewish research worldwide. His particular expertise lies in Poland, the United Kingdom (especially Scotland) and the USA. He has over 30 years of genealogy experience including 25 years helping Holocaust survivors and their families, and utilising DNA analysis. Michael is a ‘detective’, his work is fascinating. Listen to the podcasts and hear about Michael’s work and about Moniek and his childhood and why he was sent to a concentration camp aged 15. Did Michael succeed in finding any trace of Moniek’s family? If you want to find out more about Michael’s work, you can contact him through his email address at michael@gene-genie.com To listen to Moniek Garber’s oral interview and watch his video interview, please go to the Gathering the Voices website at ⁠www.gatheringthevoices.com⁠ Finding Moniek’s Family is presented by Angela Shapiro. The sound, design and mixing is by Sam MacLeod.
- [Finding Moniek’s Family - Michael explains how he tried to trace Moniek ‘s family 5/6](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/finding-monieks-family-michael-explains-how-he-tried-to-trace-moniek-s-family-5-6/) - Michael explains how he tried to trace Moniek ‘s familyThis is episode 5 of 6 of a mini series - Due to popular request we are releasing all six episodes.At a meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, organised by The Association of Jewish Refugees, he heard Michael Tobias OBE, who is a genealogist, offer to trace family members. He said sadly to Michael that he did not think that Michael could help him. Michael Tobias is an award-winning professional genealogist specialising in Jewish research worldwide. His particular expertise lies in Poland, the United Kingdom (especially Scotland) and the USA. He has over 30 years of genealogy experience including 25 years helping Holocaust survivors and their families, and utilising DNA analysis. Michael is a ‘detective’, his work is fascinating. Listen to the podcasts and hear about Michael’s work and about Moniek and his childhood and why he was sent to a concentration camp aged 15. Did Michael succeed in finding any trace of Moniek’s family? If you want to find out more about Michael’s work, you can contact him through his email address at michael@gene-genie.com To listen to Moniek Garber’s oral interview and watch his video interview, please go to the Gathering the Voices website at ⁠www.gatheringthevoices.com⁠ Finding Moniek’s Family is presented by Angela Shapiro. The sound, design and mixing is by Sam MacLeod.
- [Finding Moniek’s Family - Moniek explains why he was punished and sentenced to five years imprisonment 4/6](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/finding-monieks-family-moniek-explains-why-he-was-punished-and-sentenced-to-five-years-imprisonment-4-6/) - Moniek explains why he was punished and sentenced to five years imprisonment and what happened to his father, brother and mother.This is episode 4 of 6 of a mini series - Due to popular request we are releasing all six episodes.At a meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, organised by The Association of Jewish Refugees, he heard Michael Tobias OBE, who is a genealogist, offer to trace family members. He said sadly to Michael that he did not think that Michael could help him. Michael Tobias is an award-winning professional genealogist specialising in Jewish research worldwide. His particular expertise lies in Poland, the United Kingdom (especially Scotland) and the USA. He has over 30 years of genealogy experience including 25 years helping Holocaust survivors and their families, and utilising DNA analysis. Michael is a ‘detective’, his work is fascinating. Listen to the podcasts and hear about Michael’s work and about Moniek and his childhood and why he was sent to a concentration camp aged 15. Did Michael succeed in finding any trace of Moniek’s family? If you want to find out more about Michael’s work, you can contact him through his email address at michael@gene-genie.com To listen to Moniek Garber’s oral interview and watch his video interview, please go to the Gathering the Voices website at ⁠www.gatheringthevoices.com⁠ Finding Moniek’s Family is presented by Angela Shapiro. The sound, design and mixing is by Sam MacLeod.
- [Finding Moniek’s Family - Moniek Garber’s life before the Second World War - 3/6](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/finding-monieks-family-moniek-garbers-life-before-the-second-world-war-3-6/) - We find out about Moniek Garber’s life before the Second World War. ‘Finding Moniek’s Family ‘ Moniek Garber thought he was only person left in his family to have survived the Holocaust. This is episode 3 of 6 of a mini series - Due to popular request we are releasing all six episodes.At a meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, organised by The Association of Jewish Refugees, he heard Michael Tobias OBE, who is a genealogist, offer to trace family members. He said sadly to Michael that he did not think that Michael could help him. Michael Tobias is an award-winning professional genealogist specialising in Jewish research worldwide. His particular expertise lies in Poland, the United Kingdom (especially Scotland) and the USA. He has over 30 years of genealogy experience including 25 years helping Holocaust survivors and their families, and utilising DNA analysis. Michael is a ‘detective’, his work is fascinating. Listen to the podcasts and hear about Michael’s work and about Moniek and his childhood and why he was sent to a concentration camp aged 15. Did Michael succeed in finding any trace of Moniek’s family? If you want to find out more about Michael’s work, you can contact him through his email address at michael@gene-genie.com To listen to Moniek Garber’s oral interview and watch his video interview, please go to the Gathering the Voices website at ⁠www.gatheringthevoices.com⁠ Finding Moniek’s Family is presented by Angela Shapiro. The sound, design and mixing is by Sam MacLeod.
- [Howard Singerman speaks to BBC Radio Scotland on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025.](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/howard-singerman-speaks-to-bbc-radio-scotland-on-holocaust-remembrance-day-2025/) - Howard Singerman is the son of Susan Singerman, a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp. Susan died in January 2011, but Howard keeps her memory alive by visiting schools and telling pupils about her experiences in the camps. BBC Scotland has granted Gathering the Voices permission to re-publish the audio on our website and podcast channel.
- [Evelyn Strang](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/evelyn-strang/) - Evelyn was born in Leipzig in 1933. Evelyn and her mother were deported to Poland in 1938 but managed to escape to Britain as her father had set up a factory. Her Polish grandparents did not survive. The other grandparents lived in Berlin throughout the war. Her father set up a furrier's business in Glasgow. Evelyn worked in the business too then married and had children.
- [Dany Metzstein (Danielle Kahn)](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/dany-metzstein-danielle-kahn/) - Dany Metzstein (Danielle Kahn) was born in Montpellier, France in 1942. Her parents were in hiding and her father was involved with the Maquis. They survived the war in France, but after her father died, Dany had to stay in an orphanage and then a boarding school.She came to live in Motherwell, Scotland with her mother, stepfather and brother, and later met the love of her life, Isi, and had three children.
- [Finding Moniek’s Family - Michael talks about two different cases - 2/6](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/finding-monieks-family-michael-talks-about-two-different-cases-2-of-6/) - Michael talks about two different cases that heworked on, tracing relatives of children who survived theHolocaust.This is episode 2 of 6 of a mini series - Due to popular request we are releasing all six episodes.Moniek Garber thought he was only person left in hisfamily to have survived the Holocaust. At a meeting inGlasgow, Scotland, organised by The Association ofJewish Refugees, he heard Michael Tobias OBE, who isa genealogist, offer to trace family members. He saidsadly to Michael that he did not think that Michaelcould help him.Michael Tobias is an award-winning professionalgenealogist specialising in Jewish research worldwide.His particular expertise lies in Poland, the UnitedKingdom (especially Scotland) and the USA. He hasover 30 years of genealogy experience including 25years helping Holocaust survivors and their families,and utilising DNA analysis.Michael is a ‘detective’, his work is fascinating. Listento the podcasts and hear about Michael’s work andabout Moniek and his childhood and why he was sentto a concentration camp aged 15. Did Michael succeedin finding any trace of Moniek’s family?If you want to find out more about Michael’s work, youcan contact him through his email address atmichael@gene-genie.comTo listen to Moniek Garber’s oral interview and watch his videointerview, please go to the Gathering the Voices website atwww.gatheringthevoices.comFinding Moniek’s Family is presented by Angela Shapiro. Thesound, design and mixing is by Sam MacLeod.
- [Finding Moniek’s Family - Michael discusses his career as a genealogist - 1/6](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/finding-monieks-family-michael-discusses-his-career-as-a-genealogist-1-6/) - Episode 1 of 6 , Michael discusses his career as a genealogist and some of the organisations that he has worked with.This is episode 1 of 6 of a mini series, a new one will be released every week commencing from 29th Jan 2026‘Finding Moniek’s Family ‘Moniek Garber thought he was only person left in hisfamily to have survived the Holocaust. At a meeting inGlasgow, Scotland, organised by The Association ofJewish Refugees, he heard Michael Tobias OBE, who isa genealogist, offer to trace family members. He saidsadly to Michael that he did not think that Michaelcould help him.Michael Tobias is an award-winning professionalgenealogist specialising in Jewish research worldwide.His particular expertise lies in Poland, the UnitedKingdom (especially Scotland) and the USA. He hasover 30 years of genealogy experience including 25years helping Holocaust survivors and their families,and utilising DNA analysis.Michael is a ‘detective’, his work is fascinating. Listento the podcasts and hear about Michael’s work andabout Moniek and his childhood and why he was sentto a concentration camp aged 15. Did Michael succeedin finding any trace of Moniek’s family?If you want to find out more about Michael’s work, youcan contact him through his email address atmichael@gene-genie.comTo listen to Moniek Garber’s oral interview and watch his videointerview, please go to the Gathering the Voices website atwww.gatheringthevoices.comFinding Moniek’s Family is presented by Angela Shapiro. Thesound, design and mixing is by Sam MacLeod.
- [Trailer: An Introduction to Finding Moniek’s Family](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/trailer-an-introduction-to-finding-monieks-family/) - ‘Finding Moniek’s Family ‘Moniek Garber thought he was only person left in hisfamily to have survived the Holocaust. At a meeting inGlasgow, Scotland, organised by The Association ofJewish Refugees, he heard Michael Tobias OBE, who isa genealogist, offer to trace family members. He saidsadly to Michael that he did not think that Michaelcould help him.Michael Tobias is an award-winning professionalgenealogist specialising in Jewish research worldwide.His particular expertise lies in Poland, the UnitedKingdom (especially Scotland) and the USA. He hasover 30 years of genealogy experience including 25years helping Holocaust survivors and their families,and utilising DNA analysis.Michael is a ‘detective’, his work is fascinating. Listento the podcasts and hear about Michael’s work andabout Moniek and his childhood and why he was sentto a concentration camp aged 15. Did Michael succeedin finding any trace of Moniek’s family?If you want to find out more about Michael’s work, youcan contact him through his email address atmichael@gene-genie.comTo listen to Moniek Garber’s oral interview and watch his videointerview, please go to the Gathering the Voices website atwww.gatheringthevoices.comFinding Moniek’s Family is presented by Angela Shapiro. Thesound, design and mixing is by Sam MacLeod.
- [Erna Grace](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/erna-grace/) - Erna Grace (Rabner) was born in Dortmund, Germany in 1930. Erna came on the Kindertransport when she was only eight years old. She had diphtheria while living in the reception camp in Harwich. She was taken in by Nurse Livingstone and her family In Glasgow with whom she lived with till she married. Sadly, she never saw her parents again. Erna was a hairdresser and married Jack. Read more about Erna on the Gathering the Voices website: Erna Grace – Before the War – Gathering the Voices Scotland
- [Common Good Comic](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/common-good-comic/) - This Audio comic relates a moving poem by Howard Singerman which is dedicated to his aunt who died in the Holocaust. Find out more by visiting our website. The Common Good Comics Project – Gathering The Voices Scotland
- [Interview with Marion Camrass](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/interview-with-marion-camrass/) - Marion was born into a wealthy family in Krakow. Aged only 7, together with her family she fled the fighting east into Russia, where they were interned as Poles and sent to a logging camp in Siberia. After they were released from there, they travelled through Kazakhstan and ended up in Uzbekistan for the rest of the war. In 1946, she joined her aunt in Glasgow, where she completed her education and married a doctor. Listen to Marion’s incredible journey through Central Asia , finally reaching safety in Scotland.
- [Rosa Sacharin](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/rosa-sacharin/) - Rosa Sacharin came alone to Britain in the very first Kinder transport. Born in Berlin in 1925, Rosa remembers first-hand what it was like to grow up during the rise of Nazism in Germany. She tells of how her mother, a widow, bravely helped other young Jews in Berlin to survive. Initially after she arrived in Scotland, things did not get much easier for Rosa. But Rosa bore her life with fortitude and despite the many obstacles in her path became an eminent children’s nurse. Listen to find out more about Rosa’s remarkable character.
- [Henry Wuga](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/henry-wuga/) - Listen to a fascinating interview with a remarkable man, Henry Wuga. Henry talks about his childhood in Nuremberg, where he was a schoolmate of Henry Kissinger – a fellow refugee who later became the US Secretary of State. He describes coming to Scotland on the Kindertransport. Discover what happened to Henry when, just 16, he was interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man. Henry went on to build a new life in Glasgow and become an outstanding chef. Once retired, he did more than most people do during their working lives.
- [Interview with Saskia Tepe](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/interview-with-saskia-tepe/) - Saskia Tepe was born in 1954 and lived in a Displaced Persons’ Camp outside Nurnberg until she was 7. Saskia describes the bravery of her mother Brigitte in escaping from a train to Auschwitz and her long journey to safety. Brigitte suffered greatly under the Nazis a Mischling (mixed ancestry) then under the Czechs as a Sudeten German, and finally as a refugee in the DP camp. Saskia and her mother overcame the trauma of war and its aftermath and gradually rebuilt their lives in Britain. Recorded and edited by Sam Mcleod. If you would like to find out more about Gathering the Voices, please visit our website, http://www.gatheringthevoices.com Follow us: https://www.facebook.com/Gatheringthevoicescom https://twitter.com/gatherthevoices
- [Ingrid Wuga](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/ingrid-wuga/) - ‘To say goodbye to your parents at the station in Hamburg… I will never, never forget waving goodbye to my parents when I was on the train and they were on the platform running along.’ In 1939, Ingrid Wuga arrived in Britain on the Kinder transport. She found shelter initially in Leicestershire, but after her parents managed to escape from Germany and find jobs in West Kilbride, Ingrid was reunited with her family in Scotland. Listen to Ingrid’s depiction of her refugee life in wartime Glasgow. Her post-war experiences include cycling and Youth Hostel holidays as well as a long happy marriage to Henry Wuga.
- [Joe Cent](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/joe-cent/) - For most of his life, Joe Cent didn’t know he was a refugee. Joe was born in France in March 1937. His parents were both from Warsaw but had moved to France in the 1920s to escape antisemitism in Poland. However, in 1940 the Nazis invaded France and established control over the north of the country. Joe tells how, thanks to a lucky encounter, his family all managed to leave France and establish a new life in Glasgow’s West End. He later learnt the fate of other family members who had remained in Poland. Listen more to find out about the many adventures Joe went on to have in Scotland.
- [Moniek Garber](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/moniek-garber/) - Moniek Garber was born in 1923 in Wolozin, a town which was then part of Poland but is in present day Belarus. Wolozin had a long tradition of Jewish learning, and 80% of the town’s population were Jewish. By the end of the war, 95% of the Jews in the town had been killed. Before eventually settling in Scotland, Moniek’s fascinating journey took him across the globe. Listen to find out what happened when, as young boy of 15, Moniek defaced a poster of Stalin. You will also learn about Moniek’s experiences in a Siberian concentration camp, and life as a cadet in the Polish Army.
- [Lore Lucas](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/lore-lucas/) - On the morning of the 3rd September 1939, Lore Lucas’s parents and sister – who had been visiting her in London – left Britain to return home to Holland, leaving Lore alone with her first husband. War was declared 1 hour later. Listen to the eventful life of Lore Lucas – including her happy childhood, marriage, divorce, a wonderful 2nd marriage and the awful fate of her family in Holland.
- [Halina Moss](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/halina-moss/) - Arriving in the UK in 1947, Halina Moss learnt how to be British from a book. Halina was born into a politically active family in Warsaw in 1929. Her testimony encompasses her family’s return from exile in Russia and her shock at discovering that almost all of her friends and relatives had perished. Listen to hear her vividly recount her lucky escapes, her mother’s terrifying experiences and her father’s adventures.
- [Judith Rosenberg](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/judith-rosenberg/) - Though the war started when she was just seventeen, Judith Rosenberg describes a happy childhood in Gyor in north west Hungary. Indeed, Hungarians were largely unaffected by the conflict until the Nazis invaded the country in April 1944. Soon after, Judith’s whole family was sent to Auschwitz, and she never saw her father again. Listen to Judith’s testimony to discover how her watch-repairing skills helped her to survive working in a munitions factory in Germany. Find out too how she met the love of her life, despite her mother’s doubts, and eventually moved to Glasgow where she was reunited with her fellow slave labourer, Susan Singerman – another Hungarian Auschwitz survivor whose story is also on the Gathering the Voices website.
- [Eva Szirmai](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/eva-szirmai/) - Eva Szirmai begins by describing her experiences as an apprentice photographer in Budapest. She goes on to speak about life under the Germans – the yellow star houses, the arrests, the hunger, the curfew, the ghetto and the good luck that saved her life. Eva chronicles her life with her husband and family under the Cold War Russian regime, ending with their ‘escape’ to Glasgow where her husband had been offered a job at Queens Park Synagogue. Listen to her speak of the delight she experienced when she and her family celebrated their first Friday night in the free country of Scotland.
- [Alice Malcom](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/alice-malcom/) - At the age of 93, Alice Malcom was welcomed back to Vienna by the Austrian President, Alexander Van der Bellen. It was the first time she had returned there since she escaped in 1938. Learn first-hand what it was like for a Jewish girl to live in Vienna before and after the Anschluss of March 1938 – when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany without a single shot being fired. Finally hear why Alice ended up in Scotland, where she found the love of her life.
- [Podcast Trailer](https://gatheringthevoices.com/episodes/podcast-trailer/) - Welcome to Gathering the Voices podcasts, this is a limited series of episodes, featuring interviews exploring the stories people have told to escape Nazi persecution and reach Scotland

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- [Life in England](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/life-in-england/)
- [life with husband](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/life-with-husband/)
- [scotland](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/scotland/)
- [fred](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/fred/)
- [His](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/his/)
- [weiss](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/weiss/)
- [Diary](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/diary/)
- [Heinz Martin Wuga](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/heinz-martin-wuga/)
- [Personal](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/personal/)
- [abrupt](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/abrupt/)
- [end](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/end/)
- [fun](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/fun/)
- [normal](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/normal/)
- [1964](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/1964/)
- [Belsen](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/belsen/)
- [Crosbie](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/crosbie/)
- [Girvan](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/girvan/)
- [Jack](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/jack/)
- [Memory](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/memory/)
- [Of](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/of/)
- [ansbacher](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/ansbacher/)
- [martin](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/martin/)
- [prosecutor](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/prosecutor/)
- [senior](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/senior/)
- [accounts](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/accounts/)
- [Annual-review](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/annual-review/)
- [naming](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/naming/)
- [school](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/school/)
- [1924](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/1924/)
- [1939](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/1939/)
- [naszis](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/naszis/)
- [powerpoints](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/powerpoints/)
- [Comics](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/comics/)
- [Common](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/common/)
- [Good](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/good/)
- [Dany](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/dany/)
- [Dany Metzstein](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/dany-metzstein/)
- [Susan Singerman](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/susan-singerman/)
- [Rosa Sacharin](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/rosa-sacharin/)
- [Lore Lucas - Video Interview](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/lore-lucas-video-interview/)
- [Marion Camrass](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/marion-camrass/)
- [Comic](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/comic/)
- [architect](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/architect/)
- [new life in glasgow](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/new-life-in-glasgow/)
- [Alison](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/alison/)
- [Holocaust timeline](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/holocaust-timeline/)
- [Survivors](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/survivors/)
- [True stories](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/true-stories/)
- [Podcasts](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/podcasts/)
- [Mobile Exhibition](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/mobile-exhibition/)
- [Gathering The Voices](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/gathering-the-voices/)
- [Holocaust Survivors](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/holocaust-survivors/)
- [Interactive Map](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/interactive-map/)
- [Jewish Refugees](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/jewish-refugees/)
- [Oral History](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/oral-history/)
- [Survivor Testimonies](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/survivor-testimonies/)
- [World War II](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/world-war-ii/)
- [Holocaust Education](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/holocaust-education/)
- [Scottish History](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/scottish-history/)
- [Reunited](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/reunited/)
- [Digital Memory Lab](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/digital-memory-lab/)
- [testimonies_homepage](https://gatheringthevoices.com/tag/testimonies_homepage/)

## Stats Types

- [view](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/view/)
- [Chrome](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/chrome/)
- [Macintosh](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/macintosh/)
- [Android](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/android/)
- [Safari](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/safari/)
- [iPhone](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/iphone/)
- [Windows](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/windows/)
- [unknown](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/unknown/)
- [Samsung Browser](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/samsung-browser/)
- [Linux](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/linux/)
- [Firefox](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/firefox/)
- [Android Browser](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/android-browser/)
- [iPad](https://gatheringthevoices.com/wpa-stats-type/ipad/)