Credit’. Extract from BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on 26.08.1988. For people escaping the horrors of Nazism in Europe, those who fled their homes and settled here, will be reunited to pay tribute to the city which provided such a warm welcome. The site of the former centre is now occupied by the city’s Dental… Continue Reading Gerda Fulton – Reflections about the former Glasgow Refugee Centre
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 then Dany had to stay in an orphanage and a boarding school. She came to live in Motherwell, Scotland, and enjoyed being a teenager… Continue Reading Dany Metztein – Podcast
Int All right. Okay, let’s go. So good afternoon, Dany lovely to see you Today is the 16th of June 2023. And I’m here to interview you which is very nice of you. So normally how we start, Dany is to ask you an embarrassing question is when you were born, and what your name… Continue Reading Dany Metzstein – Interview
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ERNA I think when I had my children. Children are my life still. My daughter looks after me so much I am very lucky. Some children don’t even want to look after their parents. INTERVIEWER And it’s wonderful also for you that Suzanne is in the same town as well. ERNA Yes, yes. Oh, she… Continue Reading Erna Grace – Reflection
ERNA I loved that, I loved mixing with all the girls, and we went dancing to the Plaza on a Tuesday. INTERVIEWER And how did you meet your husband? ERNA There was a place called the ‘Jewish Institute’ in the Gorbals and everybody went on a Sunday, and he had just come out the Air… Continue Reading Erna Grace – Intergration
INTERVIEWER So, you went to Netherlee Primary School, and what happened after Netherlee Primary School? ERNA Well, I left school at 14. I was a year at Eastwood, the old Eastwood and then went into hairdressing. INTERVIEWER Which is why your hair is always lovely. ERNA No, I go to the hairdresser. INTERVIEWER But from… Continue Reading Erna Grace – Settling In
INTERVIEWER So, you came up to Glasgow, and so where did you live in Glasgow? ERNA That’s when they took me straight to Nurse Livingstone then. INTERVIEWER And where about did Nurse Livingston stay. ERNA She stayed in Stamperland, Stamperland Hill, and she had bought this house. There wasn’t much room. I slept in the… Continue Reading Erna Grace – During the War
INTERVIEWER Good afternoon Erna. Today is the 9th February 2022 and I’m here with Myrna to have a wee chat with you this afternoon. Thank you very much for having us in your lovely, lovely flat. So first of all, I was going to ask you Erna, what was your name at birth? and when… Continue Reading Erna Grace – Before the War