Halina describes how she found it difficult to integrate with the Jewish community at first. Read the transcript: INT: Why were you so keen on Scotland? HM: I don’t know, I was just the kind of girl who was enthusiastic about countries. INT: So when you came here were your dreams met or were you … Read more
Gretl talks about life with her new guardian in Coventry and describes her education and the evacuation of her school during the war. Read the Transcript INT: This is the lady that you eventually called your aunt? G.S: Yes, yes. INT: She actually brought you up? G.S: Yes. She did yes. She brought me up, … Read more
George describes his life in Glasgow and speaks about meeting his wife. Read the transcript: INT: Ok. So you arrive in 28 Abbotstford Place and did you stay there when you came? With your mum? G.T: Yes, I stayed there for a bit. I was in Glasgow maybe one or two weeks and they arranged … Read more
Frieda describes how she met her husband and how she managed to make ends meet. She tells the interviewer that she is now Scottish. INT: What age were you when you got married? FL: 21. INT: Gosh that’s quite, that’s quite young. And so how did you meet your husband? FL: I met him through … Read more
Evelyn describes how her family set up a furrier’s business in Glasgow Read the Transcript INT: And after the war ended you would still have been at school. E.S: Yes. INT: What happened then? E.S: After the war I, my father had a factory. INT: He was a furrier did you say? E.S: Yes, yes. … Read more
Eva talks about her first experiences of life in Glasgow. She describes the delight she experienced when she and her family celebrated their first Friday night in a free country. INT: Ah, no, what I meant had you had your other children? Were your other children born in Scotland? E.S: No my daughter born here, … Read more
Dorrith describes her experiences as an evacuee in Innerleithen and how she learned English. Read the Transcript INT: You must have been eight when you came to Scotland. D.S: I was seven and a half. INT: But you can’t really remember any of it? D.S: Oh I can remember bits of it but not very … Read more
In this section Bob describes his first jobs in Britain when he left the army after the war. He also talks of his time before that as a soldier in the British army. INT1: Did you work when, when you arrived here? BK: Yes, I started out as a small time commercial traveler. Working for … Read more
Marion describes her new life in Glasgow after the end of the war. She learned English and attended Laurel Bank School INT: And they [the school] gave you special support did they at the time? MC: And they were very kind and very good so that after three years at school, well I arrived in … Read more