My Voice: Gerda Rothberg
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8640-9 (ISBN)
Gerda Rothberg was born in 1926 in Lötzen. She had a happy childhood, which was shattered by the Nazi rise to power. Following her father’s detention after Kristallnacht and the introduction of many anti-Jewish regulations, her family sought to flee. Gerda and her two sisters escaped to England via the Kindertransport in June 1939, while her parents waited for her father’s identity documentation to arrive.
Gerda lived in Liverpool for a few years and then moved to a hostel in Manchester. She found employment in dressmaking, following in the footsteps of her father who was a tailor, and started to enjoy life again. She married Nat in 1949 and together they had three children. Gerda later discovered that her parents perished in Theresienstadt.
Gerda’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 – A happy childhood
2 – School and the rise of antisemitism
3 – Meeting my mother’s family
4 – Jews no longer allowed
5 – Father is taken away
6 – The Kindertransport
7 – Living in Liverpool with the Brown family
8 – Working as a nanny
9 – My opportunity to leave Liverpool
10 – Making a life for myself in Manchester
11 – Nat and his family
12 – My sister Ruth’s wedding
13 – Our wedding
14 – Becoming a mother
15 – Married life
16 – My children and grandchildren
17 – Tracing my parents
18 – Holidays abroad
19 – Meeting royalty
20 – My message to the next generation
Glossary
My Voice volunteers
About The Fed -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors |
| Zusatzinfo | 69 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-8640-3 / 1526186403 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-8640-9 / 9781526186409 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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