My Voice: Fay Phillips
By The Fed
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- 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.