My Voice: Gerda Rothberg : My life with all its ups and downs and still here to tell the tale (My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors) - Tapa blanda

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The Fed

 
9781526186409: My Voice: Gerda Rothberg : My life with all its ups and downs and still here to tell the tale (My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors)

Sinopsis

Gerda’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. Gerda Rothberg’s father was taken away after Kristallnacht and her family arranged for Gerda and her sisters to escape to the UK on the Kindertransport. She went on to work in dressmaking.

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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.

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The My Voice Project is a unique initiative by The Fed, Manchester’s leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. The My Voice Project empowers Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK to share their entire life stories including experiences before, during and after the war years. This project involves a bespoke methodological approach, producing books that preserve their unique voices. The My Voice Project ensures firsthand accounts are remembered and valued for future generations, highlighting the critical role of individual perspectives in ensuring a deeper historical understanding.

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.

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