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… Continue Reading Where Our Stories Met

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… Continue Reading Dany Metztein – Podcast

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… Continue Reading Dany Metzstein – Interview

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… Continue Reading Leo Metzstein – Settling In

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