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964: The Next Thing Is We Were Gone
Ruth Edwards
I was on the train and saw my father crying. That made me cry. My mother said, perhaps she doesn't want to go. I said, yes, I do want to go...
969: No One In My Situation
Lia Lesser
In 1939, my father married again in Prague. His wife was called Ola & she was a seamstress. When she came out of Auschwitz she got in touch...
971: Equalising What Happened
Dr Charlotte Feldman
They used to demonstrate in the street below us. They used to shout, ‘Jews to Palestine!’ I had a very happy childhood...
972: Discovering My Brother Was Alive
Mala Tribich MBE
One day I got a letter from my brother Ben. We were in this stately home with all its beauty, I opened it, I read it & was so excited...
973: The Puzzle & The Blanks
Jacques Weisser BEM
I should've delved more into it, asking questions. But most of the time after the war I wasn't with my father...
974: How To Recover
Susan Pollack OBE
It took a long time for me to strengthen my own needs. I made a friend & she made a very big, deep impression on me. A shared nightmare...
976: Coming To England Alone Aged 5
Hannah Wurzburger
It's a bottomless pit. So absolutely appalling. Children are so vulnerable. Especially when they're separated from their family...
979: Sitting Through That
Bronia Snow
My parents always discussed everything. But not a word was spoken about my going to England. So I found myself one fine day...
981: 4th of the 4th, 1944
Jack Cynamon
My first recollection is aeroplanes in the sky in Brussels. One morning the sky was full of aeroplanes. There must have been 60...
987: Father's Deportation
Betty Bloom
Unfortunately, at 6am, there was a knock on the door & two Gestapo officers marched in & arrested my father...
988: Getting Up From The Dust
Ivor Perl BEM
I was only 12 when I was taken to Auschwitz. I feel very, very hurt that I haven’t got many memories of my family...
994: Grass Snakes At The Beacon
Lilly Lampert
All I know: I wanted to come to England to be with my sister Gertie. I didn't know I wasn't going to see my parents again...
997: My Mother & Father
Trude Silman MBE
My mother is a question mark. I know she survived ‘til 1944 because we used to get the odd occasional 25-word Red Cross letter, but then it stopped...
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