Gathering the Voices Podcast Episodes

Moniek gives his reaction to Michael’s work.This is episode 6 of 6 of a mini series - Due to popular request we are releasing all six episodes.At a meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, organised by The Association of Jewish Refugees, he heard Michael Tobias OBE, who is a genealogist, offer to trace family members. He said sadly to Michael that he did not think that Michael could help him. Michael Tobias is an award-winning professional genealogist specialising in Jewish research worldwide. His particular expertise lies in Poland, the United Kingdom (especially Scotland) and the USA. He has over 30 years of genealogy experience including 25 years helping Holocaust survivors and their families, and utilising DNA analysis. Michael is a ‘detective’, his work is fascinating. Listen to the podcasts and hear about Michael’s work and about Moniek and his childhood and why he was sent to a concentration camp aged 15. Did Michael succeed in finding any trace of Moniek’s family? If you want to find out more about Michael’s work, you can contact him through his email address at michael@gene-genie.com To listen to Moniek Garber’s oral interview and watch his video interview, please go to the Gathering the Voices website at ⁠www.gatheringthevoices.com⁠ Finding Moniek’s Family is presented by Angela Shapiro. The sound, design and mixing is by Sam MacLeod.

Howard Singerman is the son of Susan Singerman, a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp. Susan died in January 2011, but Howard keeps her memory alive by visiting schools and telling pupils about her experiences in the camps.

BBC Scotland has granted Gathering the Voices permission to re-publish the audio on our website and podcast channel.

Evelyn was born in Leipzig in 1933. Evelyn and her mother were deported to Poland in 1938 but managed to escape to Britain as her father had set up a factory. Her Polish grandparents did not survive.  The other grandparents lived in Berlin throughout the war.  Her father set up a furrier's business in Glasgow. Evelyn worked in the business too then married and had children. 

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 after her father died, Dany had to stay in an orphanage and then a boarding school.She came to live in Motherwell, Scotland with her mother, stepfather and brother, and later met the love of her life, Isi, and had three children.

Erna Grace (Rabner) was born in Dortmund, Germany in 1930. 
Erna came on the Kindertransport when she was only eight years old.  
She had diphtheria while living in the reception camp in Harwich.  She was taken in by Nurse Livingstone and her family In Glasgow with whom she lived with till she married. Sadly, she never saw her parents again. Erna was a hairdresser and married Jack.
Read more about Erna on the Gathering the Voices website:
Erna Grace – Before the War – Gathering the Voices Scotland 

Saskia Tepe was born in 1954 and lived in a Displaced Persons’ Camp outside Nurnberg until she was 7.  Saskia describes the bravery of her mother Brigitte in escaping from a train to Auschwitz and her long journey to safety.  Brigitte suffered greatly under the Nazis a Mischling (mixed ancestry) then under the Czechs as a Sudeten German, and finally as a refugee in the DP camp.  Saskia and her mother overcame the trauma of war and its aftermath and gradually rebuilt their lives in Britain.  
Recorded and edited by Sam Mcleod.
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