Food for Thought is a free engaging and informative talk series on research which is relevant to people’s lives followed by dinner and discussion in community venues in North Glasgow. Continue Reading Dr Angela Shapiro presents to the Queens Cross Housing Association
Food for Thought is a free engaging and informative talk series on research which is relevant to people’s lives followed by dinner and discussion in community venues in North Glasgow. Continue Reading Dr Angela Shapiro presents to the Queens Cross Housing Association
Gretl Shapiro, my mother, came to the UK as part of the Kindertransport. She was brought up by Quakers in England and came to Scotland after the war. She had a successful career as a ceramicist. She was interviewed about her life at the time of the Glasgow Garden Festival and always said that she… Continue Reading David Shapiro
Read the Transcript G.S: Well I get upset about it but I haven’t joined any groups or anything to do anything about it. I suppose I should. INT: I just wondered if perhaps an experience like that would make you fear that it could happen anywhere – do you think it could? G.S: Well I… Continue Reading Gretl Shapiro – Reflection On Life
Read the Transcript G.S: Oh, no no no. I mean I used to go with her to meetings, into the meeting house but she would never have. No, no, she wouldn’t want to convert me or anything. No, no, that wasn’t in it. And at first I used to listen, because I don’t know whether… Continue Reading Gretl Shapiro – Integration
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.S: Well, yes. My sister was already here and we arrived at Liverpool Street Station and I remember there was a sort of barrier and my sister was standing there waving madly, but we were rushed away because I think that we had to catch a train to Coventry. And so I… Continue Reading Gretl Shapiro – Immigration
Read the Transcript NT: How did you come here? G.S: I came with a children’s transport which was arranged by the Quakers, the ‘Society of Friends’ INT: And where had you come from? G.S: I had come from Vienna INT: Why had your parents allowed you to come? G.S: Well, they could see no future… Continue Reading Gretl Shapiro – Life Before The War