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My charmed life story / Werner Lachs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lachs, Werner, 1926- author.
- Fed (Manchester, England)
- Series:
- My Voice: the Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors Series
- My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lachs, Werner, 1926---Biography.
- Lachs, Werner.
- Holocaust survivors--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust survivors--Great Britain--History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish refugees--England--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 128 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- My Voice : Werner Lachs
- Werner Lachs
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Summary:
- Werner'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. Werner Lachs was born in Cologne and escaped to England thanks to an unknown intervention by a spy named Frank Foley. In later life, he worked in clothing manufacturing.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- My Voice Project
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 - My family
- 2 - My childhood
- 3 - Kristallnacht
- 4 - Plans to emigrate
- 5 - Frank Foley, our saviour
- 6 - Saying our goodbyes
- 7 - Our arrival in England
- 8 - My first home in England
- 9 - The Bentwoods and my Bar Mitzvah
- 10 - Evacuation
- 11 - An unsettling time during the war years
- 12 - A terrible loss
- 13 - We were the lucky ones
- 14 - The fate of my German friends
- 15 - Settling down after the war
- 16 - Meeting Ruth
- 17 - My growing family
- 18 - My career and communal work
- 19 - My interests and leisure time
- 20 - Reflections
- Glossary
- My Voice volunteers
- About The Fed.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication, viewed December 9, 2024.
- ISBN:
- 9781526187024
- 1526187027
- 9781526187048
- 1526187043
- OCLC:
- 1458756544
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