• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Gathering The Voices Scotland

Gathering The Voices Scotland

Testimonies of Holocaust survivors who settled in Scotland

  • Testimonies
  • News
  • Resources
    • Exhibition
      • Volunteer Speakers
      • Enlarged Pictures of Exhibition
      • Costs & Technical Requirements
    • Renate’s Book Of Letters
    • Ullmann Family Papers
    • Martin Ansbacher Letter
    • Links
    • Newspapers Articles
    • Research
    • Glossary
  • Education
  • About
    • Contact
    • Annual Review and Accounts
  • Podcasts
  • Donation
  • Youtube

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 in 1939, in May or June, as well, and had a household job in Bradford, and we were really just good friends, not sweethearts, and in all the years while she was in Bradford, and I was in Glasgow, we would be very regular in contact with each other, telling each other about our boyfriends, girlfriends, and so we really had been very good friends, and once or twice we met, before then, after then, then we decided, “Why shouldn’t we get engaged?”

And so we got engaged, and in July 1946 we got married. So afterwards, well, there isn’t an awful lot to report, I started Agencies, which at first didn’t work all that well, but one works oneself up, we had a pretty hard, tough time, to begin with, and, but eventually things improved, and various Agencies, as I got more experience of the road, I got better Agencies, and then our first son, Steven, was born in 1948, and Howard our younger one was born in 1951. And this is, this is about where we are.

And what happened to your relatives and Pat’s relatives?

Pat’s parents died in Auschwitz.

My parents, as I said, came over here, my mother died in October ’48, and my father died in 1955.

Primary Sidebar

Listen to the Testimony

https://gatheringthevoices.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/martin-anson-starting-out-after-the-war.mp3Press the play button to listen

Links to Other Testimonies by Martin Anson

Childhood And School Days
Starting Work And Resisting The Rise Of National Socialism
Arrest On Kristallnacht And Imprisonment In Dachau Concentration Camp
Arrival In Glasgow
Starting Out After The War
Handwritten Notes
Pat and Martin Anson c1946
Photo taken on Martin' Anson 's 80th Birthday

Footer

  • National Lottery Heritage Fund
  • Scottish Goverment
  • Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Glasgow City Council
  • German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Esterson Trust
  • The Association of Jewish Refugees
  • Ethel Hoffman
  • Micheline Brannan
  • Queens Park Charitable Trust
  • Ralph Slater Trust
  • Glasgow Jewish Community Trust
  • Netherlee and Clarkston Charitable Trust
  • The Alma & Leslie Wolfson Charitable Trust‏
  • Alan and Carole Zeichick

Follow us

The Gathering the Voices Association is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Registered Scottish Charity Number: SC047809

Privacy and Cookies Policy l Creative Commons