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To gather audio and video testimonies from Holocaust refugees about their experiences before and after they came to Scotland. Find out more, go to our website; www.gatheringthevoices.com

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Post image 02.11.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you have any problems playing 'Suzanne' there is a video available.

17.10.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spotlight: Gathering the Voices by Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden Our Spotlight series takes a deep dive into the digital offerings of worldwide organisations dedicated to Holocaust memory. This week, Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden looks at how the community association Gathering the Voices has used digital media to present testimonies of survivors with connections to Scotland, and to enable students to

In case you missed it....Our Lab Director reports on Gathering the Voices, a project based in Glasgow, Scotland, following recent fieldwork. Let us know what you think:

06.10.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Annual Report 2024-2025 Annual Report 2024-2025 Director’s Welcome Welcome to the first annual report of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab. The establishment of the Lab was officially announced at a public lecture on 11 April 2024 at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum,

In case you missed it...The inaugural year of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab was busy! Find out more about all the work we did in our first annual report:

07.10.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watch the trailer about Suzanne Ullman's life in Budapest. Play the game which has been developed by Glasgow Caledonian University students on GtV's website

02.07.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where Our Stories Met - Gathering the Voices Dany & Isi Metzstein Where our stories met Comic & Youtube Videos Where our Stories Met In 2025, St Andrew's and St Bride's High School pupils in East Kilbride worked collaboratively with Magic Torch…

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18.06.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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St Andrews and St Bride's School with Magic Torch Comics wrote a comic about Isi & Dany Metzstein's escape from the Holocaust to Scotland.

18.06.2025 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to joining Hamid who is leading a practical workshop on how to design and create a serious computer game at the Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo 2025 in June.

05.06.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The game assigns to participants one of a set of fictitious characters representing the very few active anti-Nazis serving in or alongside the German army. They investigate the characteristics of a set of fictitious German soldiers to assess how likely each is to perpetrate Nazi crimes.

05.06.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to presenting at the Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo and meeting everybody.

02.06.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gathering the Voices was mentioned on Radio 4 's podcast
Half-Life ' Daughter of Radium ' by Joe Dunthorne . It tells the story of his grandmother (Dorothea Brander)'s father 's work with poison gas .

08.05.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you follow us Gathering the Voices on Bluesky too please @gatheringthevoices.bsky.social. Thankyou! Angela Shapiro

16.03.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Susan Singerman's interview is temporarily on Gathering the Voices' website The interview from 1988 is archived at the British Library… https://gatheringthevoices.com/susan-singerman-national-life-stories/
15.03.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eva Miller is the only child of Richard and Gertrude Kuttner and was born in Berlin. Her mother died in childbirth and her father died in Auschwitz. Eva came to the UK on the Kindertransport She settled in, married and had 3 children and ran the Deli for many years in Glasgow buff.ly/woBCtqr

02.03.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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JRI-Poland, a global collective of volunteer genealogists, are collaborating with Yad Vashem to put names to unnamed Holocaust victims , many of whom are children buff.ly/3Xl4S6s

27.02.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted that St Andrew's & St Bride's School in East Kilbride, Scotland has begun the new digital comic in collaboration with Magic Torch Comics and Gathering the Voices .

17.02.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#everynamecounts challenge for 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation - Arolsen Archives

80 years ago, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz. They took possession of thousands of so-called prisoner registration cards. With your help, we hope to digitize 27,000 of these documents in the days around #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay. arolsen-archives.org/en/news/ever...

28.01.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Howard Singerman speaks to BBC Radio Scotland on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025. by Gathering the Voices Howard Singerman is the son of Susan Singerman, a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp. Susan died in January 2011, but Howard keeps her memory alive by visiting schools and telling pupils about…

Howard Singerman spoke to BBC Radio Scotland on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025.
Howard is the son of Susan Singerman, a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp. Susan died in January 2011

03.02.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy belated 105 birthday to Lore Lucas!!!! Listen to her interview https://buff.ly/3q4cMOR and watch her video interview https://buff.ly/4aPDH9h

02.02.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gathering the Voices is on Facebook, X and Instagram . Please follow us.

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We are also new to Bluesky so please follow us and use our resources!

29.01.2025 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Susan Singerman was born in Hungary. She and her family were sent by cattle truck to Auschwitz. Chosen to live by the notorious Josef Mengele, Susan was the only member of her family to survive. https://buff.ly/4awzvv5

27.01.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Explore Marianne Grant's remarkable story of resilience and bravery. #Holocaust from Prague to Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz, later to a slave labour camp and finally to Bergen-Belsen, https://buff.ly/3Wz3cFM

26.01.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To commemorate National Holocaust Day watch 'In Plain Sight' on Gathering the Voices home page. https://bit.ly/40Mk3ra

23.01.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kathy Hagler – Life Before The WWII - Gathering the Voices Kathy was born in 1942, her father was taken away by the Nazis when she was just one year old. Initially, she was sent to the Munkacs Ghetto with her mother and baby sister. Kathy explains that even…

Kathy Hagler passed away on the 12th December 2024. Read the obituary in the Press and Journal https://buff.ly/4jcq1J7 and listen to her interview on the Gathering the Voices website.

11.01.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Anna Hirsh for enabling me ( Angela Shapiro) to talk about Gathering the Voices https://buff.ly/49BKfaQ at Melbourne Holocaust Museum https://mhm.org.au/

15.12.2024 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Listen to Evelyn Strang's podcast explain how her German grandparents survived in Berlin throughout the war. Photo below shows them standing infront of Olympics flags in Berlin.
Read More: https://buff.ly/4i4akTI

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