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The podcasts on the Gathering the Voices channel are more recent interviews with our interviewees and are inspiring oral histories from individuals who have faced adversity.
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Common Good Comic
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. The Common…
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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.
The Common Good Comics Project – Gathering The Voices Scotland
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Interview with Marion Camrass
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…
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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 released from there, they travelled through Kazakhstan and ended up in Uzbekistan for the rest of the war.
In 1946, she joined her aunt in Glasgow, where she completed her education and married a doctor.
Listen to Marion’s incredible journey through Central Asia , finally reaching safety in Scotland.
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Rosa Sacharin
Rosa Sacharin came alone to Britain in the very first Kinder transport. Born in Berlin in 1925, Rosa remembers first-hand what it was like to grow up during the rise…
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Rosa Sacharin came alone to Britain in the very first Kinder transport.
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 mother, a widow, bravely helped other young Jews in Berlin to survive.
Initially after she arrived in Scotland, things did not get much easier for Rosa. But Rosa bore her life with fortitude and despite the many obstacles in her path became an eminent children’s nurse.
Listen to find out more about Rosa’s remarkable character.
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Ingrid Wuga
‘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…
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‘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.’
In 1939, Ingrid Wuga arrived in Britain on the Kinder transport. She found shelter initially in Leicestershire, but after her parents managed to escape from Germany and find jobs in West Kilbride, Ingrid was reunited with her family in Scotland.
Listen to Ingrid’s depiction of her refugee life in wartime Glasgow. Her post-war experiences include cycling and Youth Hostel holidays as well as a long happy marriage to Henry Wuga.
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Henry Wuga
Listen to a fascinating interview with a remarkable man, Henry Wuga. Henry talks about his childhood in Nuremberg, where he was a schoolmate of Henry Kissinger – a fellow refugee…
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Listen to a fascinating interview with a remarkable man, Henry Wuga.
Henry talks about his childhood in Nuremberg, where he was a schoolmate of Henry Kissinger – a fellow refugee who later became the US Secretary of State. He describes coming to Scotland on the Kindertransport.
Discover what happened to Henry when, just 16, he was interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man.
Henry went on to build a new life in Glasgow and become an outstanding chef. Once retired, he did more than most people do during their working lives.
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Joe Cent
For most of his life, Joe Cent didn’t know he was a refugee. Joe was born in France in March 1937. His parents were both from Warsaw but had moved…
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For most of his life, Joe Cent didn’t know he was a refugee.
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. However, in 1940 the Nazis invaded France and established control over the north of the country.
Joe tells how, thanks to a lucky encounter, his family all managed to leave France and establish a new life in Glasgow’s West End. He later learnt the fate of other family members who had remained in Poland.
Listen more to find out about the many adventures Joe went on to have in Scotland.
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