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Canada Montreal Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... Previous Location Next Location

Canada Trois-Rivières Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... Previous Location Next Location

England Liverpool Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... Previous Location Next Location

England Huyton Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... Previous Location Next Location

Scotland Greenock Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... Previous Location Next Location

England Bury St Edmunds Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... Previous Location Next Location

Isle of Man Isle of Man Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... Previous Location Next Location

British Internment Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... 961: Having My Revenge Willy Field I was a refugee from Nazi oppression. I wanted to have my revenge & I had my revenge. That was a wonderful feeling... Previous Experience Next Experience

Reunited Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... 966: I Thought You Were A Nazi Bea Green MBE There were two girls who often turned up with their Hitler Youth uniform. I stayed clear of them. One of them found me after the war... 970: Mother's Death At Our Liberation Mirjam Finkelstein By January 1945 there were rumours. People got quite excited. There was a wooden table, we had to walk past the camp doctor... 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... 983: The Struggle To Stay Alive Helen Aronson BEM We were taken to a disused prison. People were crying & hungry, not knowing anything. In the morning, Chaim Rumkowski came... 989: Buying Sauerkraut & Soap Eva Mendelsson When you're a child, when nasty things happen, you remember. It makes a tremendous impression, even if you don’t quite understand... 995: Father's Shop Harry Bibring BEM It was perfectly OK to try & obtain Jewish property by purchasing it at a peppercorn price... Previous Experience Next Experience

Some of the experiences of people in the archive Experiences Agricultural Labour Anschluss Arrested Asked To Leave School Attempted Humiliation Auschwitz Australian Internment Bergen-Belsen Betrayed Boarder British Army British Internment Buchenwald Canadian Internment Close Family Murdered Concentration Camp Converted To Christianity Dachau Deported Destruction of Property Dismissed From Job Domestic Service Emigration to Czechoslovakia Encounter With Hitler Encounter With Nazi Officials False Name Finding Out Food Forced Labour Forced Soviet Emigration Ghetto Incarceration HMT Dunera Helped By Non-Jews Hidden Child Hiding In Plain Sight Hiding Valuables Hitler Youth Homesick Hostel In Hiding Isle Of Man Internment Kindertransport Kindertransport To Belgium Kitchener Camp Liberation Near Escape Nerves of Steel Never Finding Out Nicholas Winton Kindertransport No Longer Allowed Pets Not Allowed To Use Swimming Pools Not Allowed To Visit Cinemas Not Remembering November Pogrom / Kristallnacht Polenaktion Pre-war Camp Prisoner Of War Ravensbrück Recovery Red Cross Letters Reprisals Resistance Reunited Saved By Rabbi Schonfeld Slave Labourer Song Staying With Strangers Suicide Swedish Recuperation Telling The Story The AJR Torah Destroyed Yellow Star

1000 Memories is a collection of short edited Holocaust testimony remembered by Holocaust survivors and refugees who experienced Nazi persecution as Jews, and found refuge in Britain, before, during or after the Second World War. 1000: Idzia Mala Tribich MBE Rumours started circulating that there's going to be a deportation. So people were in panic, trying to find ways of saving themselves... 998: Red Oaks Boarding School Ruth Jackson I was led upstairs to an empty dormitory & told that the very end bed was mine & I should have a bath & come down to tea. I felt miserable... 961: Having My Revenge Willy Field I was a refugee from Nazi oppression. I wanted to have my revenge & I had my revenge. That was a wonderful feeling... 957: How To Hide In Vienna Father Francis Wahle Letter-writing was timetabled: once a week. But from 1942 onwards there were no letters in reply because my parents went underground... 1000 Memories: Short edited Holocaust testimony 1000 Memories is a collection of more than 1000 moments, events and details remembered by Holocaust survivors and refugees who experienced Nazi persecution as Jews, and found refuge in Britain, before, during or after the Second World War. Here, in their own words, ordinary people recall the hate, terror, violence, loss, oppression, disruption and prejudice they once experienced – as well as the moments of kindness, love, luck, bravery and heroism. They also describe what if felt like to start again in a new country. The memories were originally edited from transcripts of interviews conducted by the Refugee Voices Archive of the Association of Jewish Refugees. The Refugee Voices interviews are filmed conversations between Holocaust survivors, oral historians and trained interviewers. Read More See All Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... Memory Map Agricultural Labour Anschluss Arrested Asked To Leave School Attempted Humiliation Auschwitz Australian Internment Bergen-Belsen Betrayed Boarder British Army British Internment Buchenwald Canadian Internment Close Family Murdered Concentration Camp Converted To Christianity Dachau Deported Destruction of Property Dismissed From Job Domestic Service Emigration to Czechoslovakia Encounter With Hitler Encounter With Nazi Officials False Name Finding Out Food Forced Labour Forced Soviet Emigration Ghetto Incarceration HMT Dunera Helped By Non-Jews Hidden Child Hiding In Plain Sight Hiding Valuables Hitler Youth Homesick Hostel In Hiding Isle Of Man Internment Kindertransport Kindertransport To Belgium Kitchener Camp Liberation Near Escape Nerves of Steel Never Finding Out Nicholas Winton Kindertransport No Longer Allowed Pets Not Allowed To Use Swimming Pools Not Allowed To Visit Cinemas Not Remembering November Pogrom / Kristallnacht Polenaktion Pre-war Camp Prisoner Of War Ravensbrück Recovery Red Cross Letters Reprisals Resistance Reunited Saved By Rabbi Schonfeld Slave Labourer Song Staying With Strangers Suicide Swedish Recuperation Telling The Story The AJR Torah Destroyed Yellow Star Experiences People Albert Lester Bea Green MBE Betty Bloom Bridget Newman Bronia Snow Charles Danson Dr Charlotte Feldman Eva Mendelsson Father Francis Wahle Frank Bright George Donath Gerta Regensburger Gerti Baruch Hannah Wurzburger Hans Danziger Harry Bibring BEM Helen Aronson BEM Hella Pick CBE Ida Skubiejska Ivor Perl BEM Izak Wiesenfeld Jack Cynamon Jacques Weisser BEM John Dobai John Goldsmith Judith Steinberg Lia Lesser Lilly Lampert Mala Tribich MBE Margot Harris Maria Ault Marianne Summerfield BEM Miriam Freedman Mirjam Finkelstein Rivka Reich Ruth Edwards Ruth Jackson Selma van de Perre Simon Jochnowitz Stella Shinder Susan Pollack OBE Trude Silman MBE Walter Kammerling Willy Field 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday 953: Slave Labour In Ravensbrück 954: Arriving In Auschwitz 955: 28 People Hiding In The Loft 956: Getting To Grips With It 957: How To Hide In Vienna 958: Discovering I Was Jewish 959: The Invasion Of Hungary 960: The Awful Heydrich Reprisals 961: Having My Revenge 962: Speaking German With An English Accent 963: Experiencing Antisemitism 964: The Next Thing Is We Were Gone 965: Wounded Animals On The Farm 966: I Thought You Were A Nazi 967: Fitting In 968: How To Talk Without Crying 969: No One In My Situation 970: Mother's Death At Our Liberation 971: Equalising What Happened 972: Discovering My Brother Was Alive 973: The Puzzle & The Blanks 974: How To Recover 975: Life In A Siberian Labour Camp 976: Coming To England Alone Aged 5 977: The Cruel Guardian 978: Hitler On The Loudspeakers 979: Sitting Through That 980: Getting Streetwise 981: 4th of the 4th, 1944 982: Not Dwelling On Things 983: The Struggle To Stay Alive 984: The Attack On Our School 985: Black Heart Outside The Flat 986: The End of Łódź Ghetto 987: Father's Deportation 988: Getting Up From The Dust 989: Buying Sauerkraut & Soap 990: The Shock 991: My Ransacked School 992: Chickenpox 993: Jews Not Welcome 994: Grass Snakes At The Beacon 995: Father's Shop 996: How To Hide In Berlin 997: My Mother & Father 998: Red Oaks Boarding School 999: The Caretaker & His Daughter 1000: Idzia Memories Australia Austria Belgium Canada Czechoslovakia England France Germany Hungary Isle of Man Netherlands Northern Ireland Poland Scotland Soviet Union Sweden Switzerland USA Yugoslavia Countries 1000 Memories: Background Each memory on this site was originally created as a post for the AJR Refugee Voices social media accounts on Instagram , Facebook and X (Twitter) from 2019-2024. The social media project has ended and this site is its archive. The posts are preserved and stored here independently, as embedded links and full texts. They are arranged by person , experience , place and post order . They are searchable . This site is a work in progress, and the memories are being put up one-by-one in reverse order. Subscribe to keep updated. Read More

England The Leys School, Cambridge Memories 952: Interned On My 16th Birthday John Goldsmith In 1940, on my 16th birthday, I was writing an English essay & looking through the window & I saw a policeman... Previous Location Next Location