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My Voice: Fay Phillips

By The Fed

My Voice: Fay Phillips
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  • ISBN: 9781526186379
  • Publish Date: Sep 2024
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    Book Information

    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 138
    • Price: £13.99
    • Published Date: September 2024
    • Series: The My Voice Series

    Description

    Fay Phillips was born in Gilly in Belgium in 1932. After the German invasion of Belgium, Fay recalls her family's escape to France in a little van as part of a large movement of refugees, then later being sent back to Belgium, where she had to be hidden by the Resistance and moved around to several different places, including an unhappy time in an orphanage.

    After the war, Fay spent time in London working as a nurse, and eventually settled there working for local government when she married Len and had two children, David and Ruth. After many years, they moved to Whitefield in Manchester to be near their grandchildren.

    Fay'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.

    Contents

    1 - My arrival
    2 - From Warsaw to Gilly
    3 - The school and the shul
    4 - Our extended family
    5 - Leaving in a camionnette
    6 - Lisle-sur-Tarn
    7 - Caught by the Germans
    8 - Back in Gilly
    9 - A hidden child
    10 - The orphanage
    11 - Living on a farm
    12 - How my parents survived
    13 - Life at home after the war
    14 - I was a rebel
    15 - The Jewish American soldiers
    16 - Lily meets Leon
    17 - Life goes on
    18 - I come to live in London
    19 - My short medical career
    20 - My English improves
    21 - America beckons
    22 - Living in the States and my return
    23 - Getting the thumbs up
    24 - The groom was late!
    25 - My father and family life
    26 - A working mother
    27 - Len's trade
    28 - A new home and a new job
    29 - Leisure and family time
    30 - My children
    31 - We move to Whitefield
    32 - Shabbat and Yom Tov with the family
    33 - Len and I kept busy
    34 - Plenty of time to enjoy ourselves
    35 - Music, TV, flowers and football
    36 - My grandchildren
    37 - I wish I could speak and understand Ivrit
    38 - He went like a tzaddik
    39 - A wonderful husband, father and zaide
    40 - My caring family
    41 - Reminiscences
    42 - My sisters
    43 - My precious things
    44 - What I've learned
    45 - Memories
    Glossary
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    About The Fed

    Author

    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.

    My Voice: Fay Phillips

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