My Voice: Elena Grosskopf

The Fed (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

80 Seiten

2024
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8631-7 (ISBN)

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Elena's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Elena Grosskopf grew up on the Austrian-Italian border and escaped to England with her brother during Mussolini's antisemitic regime. -- .

Elena Grosskopf was born in June 1924 and grew up in Merano on the Austrian-Italian border. Following a happy childhood in the Italian Tyrol and later on in Milan, the rise of antisemitism in Mussolini’s regime in the late 1930s caused Elena’s parents to arrange for her to escape to England with her brother Josie. Elena recounts their experiences of life with foster families and in hostels in Manchester, and as evacuees in Blackpool.

After the war, Elena married Leo. They settled in Manchester and had three children, regularly travelling to Italy to spend time with Elena’s parents who had miraculously survived the war and found one another again there.

Elena’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 – Elena’s parents
2 – Antisemitism moves the family to Milan
3 – Refugees and on the run
4 – The war years in and around Manchester
5 – Reunion and marriage
6 – Family life
7 – Communal work and culinary arts
8 – Sunsets and sunrises
9 – Never forget
Glossary
My Voice volunteers
About The Fed -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors
Zusatzinfo	20 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
ISBN-10	1-5261-8631-4 / 1526186314
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-8631-7 / 9781526186317
Zustand	Neuware