My Voice: Ursula Rosenfeld
By The Fed
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- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 136
- Price: £13.99
- Published Date: September 2024
- Series: The My Voice Series
Description
Ursula Rosenfeld was born in 1925 in Quakenbrück, Germany to a Liberal Jewish family. Following Hitler's rise to power in 1933, they were ostracised and thrown out of their home. On Kristallnacht, the Quakenbrück synagogue was burned down, and her father was arrested and beaten by the Nazis. He was transported to Buchenwald and died there.
Ursula and her sister escaped to England on the Kindertransport in 1938, leaving their mother and infirm grandmother behind. In 1940, Ursula was apprenticed to a dressmaker in London and then trained as a nurse. She married her husband Peter in 1946. After moving to Manchester in 1958, Ursula worked as a theatre nurse, went on to become a health visitor and was appointed a magistrate on the Manchester bench.
Ursula'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 Time to tell my story
2 My parents
3 Quakenbrück
4 The first terrible blow
5 Life becomes harder
6 A strange dream
7 Kristallnacht
8 A terrible loss
9 The Jewish orphanage
10 That's how fate treats you
11 Finding our way to Bloomsbury House
12 Mrs Shepherd
13 School in Sussex
14 Hella trains to be a nurse
15 Beading ball gowns
16 London during the Blitz
17 Living on tea and buns
18 A pale and emaciated young girl
19 Meeting Peter
20 Mother - no parting, no end, no funeral
21 My wedding
22 In at the deep end and along came Ruth
23 George Cadbury's bungalow
24 Peter becomes a manager
25 A growing family
26 You need roots
27 My sister Hella went back to Germany
28 Coming to Manchester
29 Schooldays
30 Travel
31 My Working Life
32 Peter's Retirement, and an MBE
33 Losing Peter
34 Werner
35 My 80th Birthday
36 The Spielberg Foundation
37 'Into the Arms of Strangers'
38 Edith and I are reunited
39 Lest we forget
40 Visits to Quakenbrück
41 Those who were lost, and those who survived
42 My Children
43 More British than the British
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About The Fed
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The Fed is Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. In June 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.