Ernest Hirsch was born in April 1925 in Neidenburg, East Prussia. When Hitler came to power in 1933, East Prussia was taken over by Nazis and his family's business was boycotted.
After moving to Berlin, Ernest witnessed the horrors of Kristallnacht in 1938 when his synagogue was set on fire. Ernest and his siblings left for England on the Kindertransport and were placed with different families. Unfortunately, his mother never managed to escape.
After the war, Ernest served as an officer in the Royal Scots Fusiliers and had a successful career in the textile industry after studying at Leeds University. Ernest and his first wife settled in Manchester in 1970, where they had three children. His wife sadly passed away in 1992 and Ernest later remarried.
Ernest'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.
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Table of contents
- Front matter
- My Voice Project
- Contents
- 1 – My family and early life in Neidenburg
- 2 – We move to Berlin
- 3 – Kristallnacht
- 4 – Kindertransport - a final wave goodbye
- 5 – Life with our foster families
- 6 – My father comes to Glasgow
- 7 – My mother
- 8 – The fate of my other relatives
- 9 – My education
- 10 – An officer in a Scottish Regiment
- 11 – My lucky war
- 12 – Life after the war
- 13 – Meeting my first wife
- 14 – My children and grandchildren
- 15 – Life is fate
- 16 – My working life
- 17 – Making peace with Germany
- 18 – My love of sport, travel and languages
- 19 – Holocaust education and recording history
- Appendix: Ernest spoke to Sixth Form students at St. Saviour’s & St. Olave’s School in London in 2014.
- My Voice volunteers
- About The Fed
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