INT: So one of the questions, which we always finish with is highlights. When you look back and reflect back on your life, what would you say are the major highlights? RS: There are so many actually. I don’t think I could say there is one particular thing that influenced me. My parents who influenced… Continue Reading Rosa Sacharin – Reflection On Life
RS: Well it was…. it wasn’t my own decision. My sister, who was in Glasgow, actually was working in a nursery school, which was run by the Church of Scotland and she, I think, told one of the ladies about me being in Edinburgh. I had a visit from… she was a minister’s wife, and… Continue Reading Rosa Sacharin – Settling In
INT: And where did you arrive in England? Which port? RS: We arrived in Harwich and were taken by bus when I came off the boat. Actually it was a dreadful journey; we were terribly seasick. Bells rung and nobody came. Really awful, however, we survived it. So when we arrived then, there were reporters… Continue Reading Rosa Sacharin – Immigration
INT: Right. Good morning. This is Friday the 21st of September and I’m here to interview Rosa Sacharin. Rosa would you like to start off by telling me when you were born, where you were born and your name at birth? RS: I was born in Berlin in Germany on the 23rd of March 1925.… Continue Reading Rosa Sacharin – Life Before The War