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.… Continue Reading Rita McNeill – Integration

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… Continue Reading Renate Mackay – Integration

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… Continue Reading Lore Lucas – Integration

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,… Continue Reading Karola Regent – Integration

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… Continue Reading Joe Cent – Integration

Isi Metzstein – Integration

This section describes how Isi Metzstein chose to train as an architect and it goes on to give details of his architectural work and his teaching commitments. Isi talks of his pride in being Jewish but the importance of his secular oulook. He has never been thoroughly involved with Glasgow’s Jewish community. Read the Transcript… Continue Reading Isi Metzstein – Integration

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… Continue Reading Ingrid Wuga – Integration