My Voice: Werner Conn (eBook)

Kindertransport, followed by a lucky, happy life

The Fed (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
104 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8699-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Werner Conn, born in 1928, has fond memories of his early childhood in Berlin. Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Werner's father was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but his mother managed to get him released after six months. Life became very difficult, and Werner was sent to the UK on the Kindertransport. He spent his first two weeks in England at a Scout camp on the South Downs. He discovered after the war that his parents and younger brother had been deported to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia on his fifteenth birthday.In 1945, Werner obtained a National Certificate in mechanical engineering and began his career at the English Electric Company. He married Elisabeth in 1958, and they settled down in Lytham St Annes with their daughter, Heather.Werner'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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2024
• Reihe/Serie: The My Voice Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Berlin • Concentration Camp • English Electric Company • Holocaust • holocaust refugee • Holocaust survivor • Holocaust testimony • Kindertransport • Kristallnacht • Lytham St Annes • mechanical engineering • Oral History • Sachsenhausen • Second World War • Shoah • South Downs • Theresienstadt • World War 2
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-8699-3 / 1526186993
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-8699-7 / 9781526186997