Dany Metzstein (Danielle Kahn) was born in Montpellier, France in 1942. Her parents were in hiding and her father was involved with the Maquis. They survived the war in France, but after her father died, Dany had to stay in an orphanage and then a boarding school.
She came to live in Motherwell, Scotland with her mother, stepfather and brother, and later met the love of her life, Isi, and had three children.

Erna Grace (Rabner) was born in Dortmund, Germany in 1930. 

Erna came on the Kindertransport when she was only eight years old.  

She had diphtheria while living in the reception camp in Harwich.  She was taken in by Nurse Livingstone and her family In Glasgow with whom she lived with till she married. Sadly, she never saw her parents again. Erna was a hairdresser and married Jack.

Read more about Erna on the Gathering the Voices website:

Erna Grace – Before the War – Gathering the Voices Scotland 

Saskia Tepe was born in 1954 and lived in a Displaced Persons’ Camp outside Nurnberg until she was 7.  Saskia describes the bravery of her mother Brigitte in escaping from a train to Auschwitz and her long journey to safety.  Brigitte suffered greatly under the Nazis a Mischling (mixed ancestry) then under the Czechs as a Sudeten German, and finally as a refugee in the DP camp.  Saskia and her mother overcame the trauma of war and its aftermath and gradually rebuilt their lives in Britain.  

Recorded and edited by Sam Mcleod.

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This Audio comic relates a moving poem by Howard Singerman which is dedicated to his aunt who died in the Holocaust. Find out more by visiting our website. 

The Common Good Comics Project – Gathering The Voices Scotland

Marion was born into a wealthy family in Krakow. Aged only 7, together with her family she fled the fighting east into Russia, where they were interned as Poles and sent to a logging camp in Siberia. After they were released from there, they travelled through Kazakhstan and ended up in Uzbekistan for the rest of the war.

In 1946, she joined her aunt in Glasgow, where she completed her education and married a doctor.

Listen to Marion’s incredible journey through Central Asia , finally reaching safety in Scotland.

Rosa Sacharin came alone to Britain in the very first Kinder transport.

Born in Berlin in 1925, Rosa remembers first-hand what it was like to grow up during the rise of Nazism in Germany. She tells of how her mother, a widow, bravely helped other young Jews in Berlin to survive.

Initially after she arrived in Scotland, things did not get much easier for Rosa. But Rosa bore her life with fortitude and despite the many obstacles in her path became an eminent children’s nurse.

Listen to find out more about Rosa’s remarkable character.

‘To say goodbye to your parents at the station in Hamburg… I will never, never forget waving goodbye to my parents when I was on the train and they were on the platform running along.’

In 1939, Ingrid Wuga arrived in Britain on the Kinder transport. She found shelter initially in Leicestershire, but after her parents managed to escape from Germany and find jobs in West Kilbride, Ingrid was reunited with her family in Scotland.

Listen to Ingrid’s depiction of her refugee life in wartime Glasgow. Her post-war experiences include cycling and Youth Hostel holidays as well as a long happy marriage to Henry Wuga.

Listen to a fascinating interview with a remarkable man, Henry Wuga.

Henry talks about his childhood in Nuremberg, where he was a schoolmate of Henry Kissinger – a fellow refugee who later became the US Secretary of State. He describes coming to Scotland on the Kindertransport.

Discover what happened to Henry when, just 16, he was interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man.

Henry went on to build a new life in Glasgow and become an outstanding chef. Once retired, he did more than most people do during their working lives.

For most of his life, Joe Cent didn’t know he was a refugee.

Joe was born in France in March 1937. His parents were both from Warsaw but had moved to France in the 1920s to escape antisemitism in Poland. However, in 1940 the Nazis invaded France and established control over the north of the country.

Joe tells how, thanks to a lucky encounter, his family all managed to leave France and establish a new life in Glasgow’s West End. He later learnt the fate of other family members who had remained in Poland.

Listen more to find out about the many adventures Joe went on to have in Scotland.