Gathering the Voices

Episode 1 of 6 , Michael discusses his career as a genealogist and some of the organisations that he has worked with. This is episode 1 of 6 of a mini series, a new one will be released every week commencing from 29th...

‘Finding Moniek’s Family ‘ ‘Moniek Garber thought he was only person left in his family to have survived the Holocaust. At a meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, organised by The Association of Jewish Refugees, he heard...

<p>Howard Singerman is the son of Susan Singerman, a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp. Susan died in January 2011, but Howard keeps her memory alive by visiting schools and telling pupils about her experiences...

<p> Evelyn was born in Leipzig in 1933. Evelyn and her mother were deported to Poland in 1938 but managed to escape to Britain as her father had set up a factory. Her Polish grandparents did not survive. The other...

<p>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 after her father died, Dany had to...

<p>Erna Grace (Rabner) was born in Dortmund, Germany in 1930. </p> <p>Erna came on the Kindertransport when she was only eight years old. </p> <p>She had diphtheria while living in the reception camp in Harwich. She was...

<p>Saskia Tepe was born in 1954 and lived in a Displaced Persons’ Camp outside Nurnberg until she was 7. Saskia describes the bravery of her mother Brigitte in escaping from a train to Auschwitz and her long journey to...

<p>This Audio comic relates a moving poem by Howard Singerman which is dedicated to his aunt who died in the Holocaust. Find out more by visiting our website. </p> <p>The Common Good Comics Project – Gathering The...

<p>Marion was born into a wealthy family in Krakow. Aged only 7, together with her family she fled the fighting east into Russia, where they were interned as Poles and sent to a logging camp in Siberia. After they were...

<p>Rosa Sacharin came alone to Britain in the very first Kinder transport.</p> <p>Born in Berlin in 1925, Rosa remembers first-hand what it was like to grow up during the rise of Nazism in Germany. She tells of how her...

<p>Listen to a fascinating interview with a remarkable man, Henry Wuga.</p> <p>Henry talks about his childhood in Nuremberg, where he was a schoolmate of Henry Kissinger – a fellow refugee who later became the US...

<p>‘To say goodbye to your parents at the station in Hamburg… I will never, never forget waving goodbye to my parents when I was on the train and they were on the platform running along.’</p> <p>In 1939, Ingrid Wuga...

<p>For most of his life, Joe Cent didn’t know he was a refugee.</p> <p>Joe was born in France in March 1937. His parents were both from Warsaw but had moved to France in the 1920s to escape antisemitism in Poland...

<p>Moniek Garber was born in 1923 in Wolozin, a town which was then part of Poland but is in present day Belarus. Wolozin had a long tradition of Jewish learning, and 80% of the town’s population were Jewish. By the end...

<p>On the morning of the 3rd September 1939, Lore Lucas’s parents and sister – who had been visiting her in London – left Britain to return home to Holland, leaving Lore alone with her first husband. War was declared 1...