My Voice: Werner Conn
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8700-0 (ISBN)
Werner Conn, born in 1928, has fond memories of his early childhood in Berlin. Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Werner’s father was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but his mother managed to get him released after six months. Life became very difficult, and Werner was sent to the UK on the Kindertransport. He spent his first two weeks in England at a Scout camp on the South Downs. He discovered after the war that his parents and younger brother had been deported to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia on his fifteenth birthday.
In 1945, Werner obtained a National Certificate in mechanical engineering and began his career at the English Electric Company. He married Elisabeth in 1958, and they settled down in Lytham St Annes with their daughter, Heather.
Werner’s book is part of the My Voice book collection, a stand-alone project of The Fed, the leading Jewish social care charity in Manchester, dedicated to preserving the life stories of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. The oral history, which is recorded and transcribed, captures their entire lives from before, during and after the war years. The books are written in the words of the survivor so that future generations can always hear their voice. The My Voice book collection is a valuable resource for Holocaust awareness and education. -- .
The Fed is Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. In June of 2021, The Fed were awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for the My Voice Project, the highest possible accolade for a voluntary sector group. -- .
1 My family
2 Childhood memories in Berlin
3 Hitler Youth and the Olympic Games
4 Life becomes difficult after Kristallnacht
5 Leaving on the Kindertransport
6 Settling into a hostel in High Wycombe
7 Moving hostels
8 My apprenticeship in Loughborough
9 Discovering the fate of my family
10 Living with the Meinhards in Oxford
11 Studying engineering at Durham University
12 Working as an engineer in Warton
13 Meeting my wife Elisabeth
14 Married life and the birth of our daughter
15 Travelling abroad for work and holidays
16 Returning to Berlin
17 Heather and her family
18 57 years of a happy marriage
19 Meeting my partner Elisabeth Abbott
20 Speaking about my past
21 I’ve been very lucky
Glossary
My Voice volunteers
About The Fed -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-8700-0 / 1526187000 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-8700-0 / 9781526187000 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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