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My Voice: Ursula Rosenfeld

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My Voice: Ursula Rosenfeld
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  • ISBN: 9781526186973
  • Publish Date: Sep 2024
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    Book Information

    • 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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    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.

    My Voice: Ursula Rosenfeld

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