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With your help today we can continue to…

Gather audio and video testimonies from Holocaust refugees about their experiences before and after they came to Scotland;

To make these testimonies available & freely accessible on the World Wide Web,

To educate current and future generations about the resilience of these refugees,

To use innovative teaching and learning approaches

If you’d like to make a one-time donation to Gathering the Voices, please use our Just Giving Page which is linked below.

We are extremely grateful for all donations, no matter how small, as they help us to meet the costs of running the website and interviewing more Holocaust survivors.

What we do

With your donations we are able to bring audio and video stories of Holocaust refugees who escaped Nazi persecution. Read a selected few below or view the full collection here

Alice Malcolm

Alice Malcolm was born in Vienna. She witnessed the rise of the Nazis in Austria as early as 1936, when her mother left her to go to England.

Edith Forrester

Edith was born in Nordhausen, Germany. She describes what happened when the Gestapo arrived at her home and arrested her father

Ingrid Wuga

“… I will never, never forget waving goodbye to my parents when I was on the train and they were on the platform running along.”

Our Aims

To gather audio and video testimonies from Holocaust refugees who have connections with Scotland

To make these testimonies available & freely accessible on the World Wide Web.

To educate current and future generations about the resilience of these refugees

Contributions

This project would not have been possible without the vital contributions from the survivors of Nazi anti-Semitism and political persecution. They gave their testimonies generously despite describing experiences that were painful for them to recall.

This project is a true reflection of community for it has involved many groups and individuals.

groupphoto — Front row, left to right:- Claire and Howard Singerman (GVA – Gathering the Voices Association), Vice Chancellor & Principal, Professor Pamela Gillies CBE (Glasgow Caledonian University), Angela Shapiro, Hilary and Steven Anson (GVA). Back row, left to right:- Stewart Maxwell (MSP), Duncan Cameron (Riverside Music Complex), David Shapiro (GVA), Heinrich Schnettger (German Consul, Edinburgh).

Staff and students of Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU)

Staff and students of Riverside Recording Studio

The Glasgow branch of the Association of Jewish Refugees

The Executive of the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council

Giffnock and Newlands Synagogue

Volunteer history graduates from Edinburgh University

And many other helpers who are giving freely of their time

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