about

David Shapiro

I am a semi-retired clinical biochemist who has worked in in hospital laboratories all my career. Gretl Shapiro, my mother, came to the UK as part of the Kindertransport. She was brought up by Quakers in England and came to Scotland after the war. She had a successful career as a ceramicist. She was interviewed … Read more

Claire Singerman

I was born in Glasgow in 1953 and after having my family, I worked for many years as a teacher of history.  My grandparents came to Britain from Poland and Lithuania in the late 19th Century, so for me the Holocaust was something that I studied as a historian rather than something ‘belonging’ to my … Read more