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: … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
In this short section Isi Metzstein discusses how far he felt that he was (and was treated as) a foreigner when he lived in Britain during the war Read the Transcript INT: And did you feel foreign at that time? Because the war was going on, was it uncomfortable to be German? IM: Actually not … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
George gives an account of the events in Germany which lead to him and his brother coming to Glasgow to settle. Read the transcript: INT: So you were here during the war years and thankfully you had a different experience from most of the Jews in Europe. What was it like being in Glasgow during … Read more