My Voice : Ernest Hirsch / The Fed, issuing body.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

, The Fed, Author.

Contributor:

Fed, issuing body.

Series:

My Voice: the Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors.

Oral history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Ernest'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. Ernest Hirsch was born in East Prussia, moved to Berlin and eventually escaped to England with his siblings on the Kindertransport. He later had a successful career in the textile sector.

Contents:

Front matter

My Voice Project

Contents

1 – My family and early life in Neidenburg

2 – We move to Berlin

3 – Kristallnacht

4 – Kindertransport - a final wave goodbye

5 – Life with our foster families

6 – My father comes to Glasgow

7 – My mother

8 – The fate of my other relatives

9 – My education

10 – An officer in a Scottish Regiment

11 – My lucky war

12 – Life after the war

13 – Meeting my first wife

14 – My children and grandchildren

15 – Life is fate

16 – My working life

17 – Making peace with Germany

18 – My love of sport, traveland languages

19 – Holocaust education and recording history

Appendix: Ernest spoke to Sixth Form students at St. Saviour’s & St. Olave’s School in London in 2014.

My Voice volunteens

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ISBN:

9781526186355

1526186357

OCLC:

1458756544