Dance Saved My LifeDan Lewis shares the story of his grandmother, Helen Lewis MBE. Helen was born in 1916 in Trutnov, which is in the present day Czech Republic. She was born into a Jewish family that was well integrated and heavily involved in Trutnov life. By the time the Nazis fully …
Le Chayim – The miraculous survival of Ziggy Landschaft. Leah Burman tells the story of Ziggy Landschaft, her father. Ziggy was born in 1925 in a town called Chorzow, about an hour’s drive away from Cracow and near the border with Germany. He had a younger brother, Mayer, and parents, …
Ilse Beres was the only daughter of Rosa and Max Beres. She was born in 1924 in Vienna, where she lived until 1938. But this story starts much earlier, in 1890 when Rosa and Max, as Jews, fled their home in Ukraine to escape from the pogroms that were very …
Stuart Ferster shares the Holocaust story of his father, Chaim Ferster, with us. Chaim was born 1922 into a large, orthodox Jewish family and raised in the Polish town of Sosnowiec. He was 17 in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. At the suggestion of a relative, …
Martin and Ernst Wertheim were the sons of Erich Wertheim and Margarete (nee Schwabe) Wertheim. Martin was born on July 31 1929 and Ernst was born on August 23, 1923. They were raised in Brackel, Germany where their family had a corn farm and factory. Martin came to the UK on the Kindertransport in …
Ernie Hunter recounts the story of his mother, Fanny Höchstetter, and howlong-standing, friendly, Christian – Jewish relationships in the small market town of Laupheim, Germany were destroyed by the Nazis. Laupheim was mainly Catholic, with a Jewish community. The Jews enjoyed a full religious and cultural life. Jewish shops closed over the …
