Halina describes how she found it difficult to integrate with the Jewish community at first. Read the transcript: INT: Why were you so keen on Scotland? HM: I don’t know, I was just the kind of girl who was enthusiastic about countries. INT: So when you came here were your dreams met or were you… Continue Reading Halina Moss – Settling In
Read the Transcript G.S: Yes, yes. INT: She actually brought you up? G.S: Yes. She did yes. She brought me up, she paid for my education. She was wonderful, really, an extraordinary woman. Never made you feel you owed her anything, always approved of what you did. A fabulous woman, really. INT: Did she welcome… Continue Reading Gretl Shapiro – Settling In
Read the transcript: G.T: Yes, I stayed there for a bit. I was in Glasgow maybe one or two weeks and they arranged a job for me at a Jewish firm, Berman Brothers in Ritchie Street. It was only recently that they pulled the building down. It was a furniture place making hold ups and… Continue Reading George Taylor – Settling In
Frieda describes how she met her husband and how she managed to make ends meet. She tells the interviewer that she is now Scottish. INT: What age were you when you got married? FL: 21. INT: Gosh that’s quite, that’s quite young. And so how did you meet your husband? FL: I met him through… Continue Reading Frieda Laird – Settling In
Read the Transcript E.S: Yes. INT: What happened then? E.S: After the war I, my father had a factory. INT: He was a furrier did you say? E.S: Yes, yes. But I went to the Art School, I went to a dress making school but my father said ‘Come to the factory, what are you… Continue Reading Evelyn Strang – Settling In
Eva talks about her first experiences of life in Glasgow. She describes the delight she experienced when she and her family celebrated their first Friday night in a free country. INT: Ah, no, what I meant had you had your other children? Were your other children born in Scotland? E.S: No my daughter born here,… Continue Reading Eva Szirmai – Settling In
Read the Transcript D.S: I was seven and a half. INT: But you can’t really remember any of it? D.S: Oh I can remember bits of it but not very much. INT: Going back to what happened once you were here, during the wartime you must have just been at school, were you? D.S: Well… Continue Reading Dorrith M. Sim – Settling In
In this section Bob describes his first jobs in Britain when he left the army after the war. He also talks of his time before that as a soldier in the British army. INT1: Did you work when, when you arrived here? BK: Yes, I started out as a small time commercial traveler. Working for… Continue Reading Bob Kutner – Settling In
Marion describes her new life in Glasgow after the end of the war. She learned English and attended Laurel Bank School INT: And they [the school] gave you special support did they at the time? MC: And they were very kind and very good so that after three years at school, well I arrived in… Continue Reading Marion Camrass – Settling In