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Lost and waiting to be found / Jackie Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Jackie, 1941- author.
- Series:
- My Voice: the Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors Series
- My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young, Jackie, 1941---Biography.
- Young, Jackie.
- Adoption--Jewish refugees--Great Britain--Biography.
- Adoption.
- Jewish refugees--Great Britain--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust survivors--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors--Great Britain--History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations; digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- My voice : Jackie Young
- Jackie Young
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.
- 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:
- Jackie'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. Jackie was born in 1941 and survived Theresienstadt concentration camp. He came to England in 1945 and was adopted but not told about his family. He has spent 70 years pursuing the truth.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- My Voice Project
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1 - A complicated beginning
- 2 - Meeting the couple who became my parents
- 3 - Memories in dreams
- 4 - My new extended family
- 5 - From fostering to adoption
- 6 - The secret comes out
- 7 - Card games and classical music
- 8 - Grandma Polly drops a bombshell
- 9 - Love and tension with my parents
- 10 - Entering the world of work
- 11 - Meeting the love of my life
- 12 - Discovering I was a Holocaust survivor
- 13 - The house from my dreams
- 14 - Getting married and starting our family
- 15 - Visiting Vienna, land of my birth
- 16 - Two figures from my past
- 17 - A face I knew from childhood
- 18 - The door to my past opens wider
- 19 - Discovery, despair, destruction
- 20 - Two passengers in my cab
- 21 - Mourning in Minsk
- 22 - My pain as a child survivor
- 23 - The Red Cross comes up trumps
- 24 - Remembering with stones
- 25 - Wounds that wouldn't heal
- 26 - An impossible dream comes true
- 27 - My treasure, my family
- Glossary
- My Voice volunteers
- About The Fed.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-9249-7
- 1-5261-9250-0
- OCLC:
- 1522767064
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