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Title: Whittingehame College and Jacob Halevy
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: In this fascinating account, Leslie Brown recalls his school days at a unique Jewish boarding school in Brighton, Whittingehame College, which was headed by the even more unique headmaster, Jacob Hale...
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: In this fascinating account, Leslie Brown recalls his school days at a unique Jewish boarding school in Brighton, Whittingehame College, which was headed by the even more unique headmaster, Jacob Hale...
Title: The Tibber Family at Brackley, Northamptonshire
Category: Brackley
Description: Anthony Tibber recalls his family war-time in Brackley
Category: Brackley
Description: Anthony Tibber recalls his family war-time in Brackley
Title: The Testimony of Edmund Weiss a Jewish prisoner of Camp Tibor
Category: Jewsroad
Description: Many of the prisoners who laboured on the Jew's Road were imprisoned in Camp Tibor at Dannes. This is the testimony of another Jewish prisoner as to the conditions at the camp for Jews after the main...
Category: Jewsroad
Description: Many of the prisoners who laboured on the Jew's Road were imprisoned in Camp Tibor at Dannes. This is the testimony of another Jewish prisoner as to the conditions at the camp for Jews after the main...
Title: The strange story of Jacob Barnet
Category: Oxford
Description: Throughout the Middle Ages, and right through to the 1850's, the University of Oxford, required all members of the University to be Christian, and members of the established church. Thus unconverted ...
Category: Oxford
Description: Throughout the Middle Ages, and right through to the 1850's, the University of Oxford, required all members of the University to be Christian, and members of the established church. Thus unconverted ...
Title: Prof. Geoffrey Lewis Tells His Jewish Story
Category: Oxford
Description: Prof. Geoffrey Lewis tells his family's Jewish story and his recollections of Jewish life in Oxford. This account was originally given as part of the 2007 'Oxford Jewish Memory Day' held with the Oxf...
Category: Oxford
Description: Prof. Geoffrey Lewis tells his family's Jewish story and his recollections of Jewish life in Oxford. This account was originally given as part of the 2007 'Oxford Jewish Memory Day' held with the Oxf...
Title: My Father's Jewish 'Church' in WWII Montgomeryshire
Category: Miscellaneous
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Category: Miscellaneous
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Title: My East End Story
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: I was born in the East End of London. A place called Mother Levy's home. It still exists as a school. It was a place where most Jewish women had their babies. It was a haven for Jewish women who emigr...
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: I was born in the East End of London. A place called Mother Levy's home. It still exists as a school. It was a place where most Jewish women had their babies. It was a haven for Jewish women who emigr...
Title: Mods vs Brighton Maccabees
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Maccabee Beach was the great gathering place for Jewish youth in the 1950s and 1960s and here David Felsenstein recalls a confrontation between the Mods and modern day Jewish Maccabees of Brighton!!...
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Maccabee Beach was the great gathering place for Jewish youth in the 1950s and 1960s and here David Felsenstein recalls a confrontation between the Mods and modern day Jewish Maccabees of Brighton!!...
Title: Memories of Sydney Sharp
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Hans Levy remembers Sydney Sharp, the celebrated Jewish musician at Brighton Hippodrome from the 1930s, later on in his life.
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Hans Levy remembers Sydney Sharp, the celebrated Jewish musician at Brighton Hippodrome from the 1930s, later on in his life.
Title: Memories of Maccabi
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: John L. Joseph has fond memories of the Maccabi and its sporting activities, as well as an encounter with the young performer and film star, Jerry Lewis.
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: John L. Joseph has fond memories of the Maccabi and its sporting activities, as well as an encounter with the young performer and film star, Jerry Lewis.
Title: Memories from Linda Freedman (nee Heimann)
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Linda Freedman recalls how her parents came to Brighton having fled the Holocaust and the family business in Brighton and worship at Middle Street Synagogue as well as the Jewish youth scene in the 19...
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Linda Freedman recalls how her parents came to Brighton having fled the Holocaust and the family business in Brighton and worship at Middle Street Synagogue as well as the Jewish youth scene in the 19...
Title: Martin Gilmour
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Martin Gilmour's family connections with Brighton and Hove goes back some 100 years and Martin's account provides valuable details of life in Brighton both before and after the War. Martin recalls th...
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Martin Gilmour's family connections with Brighton and Hove goes back some 100 years and Martin's account provides valuable details of life in Brighton both before and after the War. Martin recalls th...
Title: June Solomons
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: As part of Jtrails outreach programme a number of Jewish residents of Brighton and Hove were interviewed and June Solomons recalls her memories of life in Brighton and membership of Holland Road Synag...
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: As part of Jtrails outreach programme a number of Jewish residents of Brighton and Hove were interviewed and June Solomons recalls her memories of life in Brighton and membership of Holland Road Synag...
Title: Jews in Bury St Edmund's and East Anglia, in the 1930s
Category: Bury St. Edmunds
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Category: Bury St. Edmunds
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Monica Bogen wrote to JTrails with these details about the Jewish community in Bury St Edmund's in the 1930s. Up to this point we had been unaware that there was a Jewish community in Bury in the ...
Title: Jewish POW from Alderney helped by Guernsey family
Category: Alderney Holocaust and Slave Labour Trail
Description: My grandparents, John Cotterill and Lizzie Cotterill lived with my mother Linda at a house just below the Miraz Battery on L'eree Hill, St Pierre du Bois, Guernsey during the occupation of the Channel...
Category: Alderney Holocaust and Slave Labour Trail
Description: My grandparents, John Cotterill and Lizzie Cotterill lived with my mother Linda at a house just below the Miraz Battery on L'eree Hill, St Pierre du Bois, Guernsey during the occupation of the Channel...
Title: Jewish Evacuees from Leeds in World War II Lincoln
Category: Lincoln
Description: Colin White shares his experiences of being a Leeds Jewish evacuee to Lincoln at the beginning of World War II. The experiences of Jewish evacuees to Lincoln have not been recorded before.
Category: Lincoln
Description: Colin White shares his experiences of being a Leeds Jewish evacuee to Lincoln at the beginning of World War II. The experiences of Jewish evacuees to Lincoln have not been recorded before.
Title: Jewish Brighton and Hove from the 1990s
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Aileen Hill remembers Jewish Brighton and Hove from her arrival in the 1990s and some of the relative decline in Jewish life.
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Aileen Hill remembers Jewish Brighton and Hove from her arrival in the 1990s and some of the relative decline in Jewish life.
Title: Jacqueline Toff - Some Thoughts on Living in Brackley As A Child
Category: Brackley
Description: Jacqueline Toff recalls her childhood as a Jewish child evacuated to Brackley with her family.
Category: Brackley
Description: Jacqueline Toff recalls her childhood as a Jewish child evacuated to Brackley with her family.
Title: Izaak Rubinsztein's Story
Category: Miscellaneous
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Category: Miscellaneous
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Izaak Rubinsztein's Story is a continuation of Jean Rubinstein's 'My East End Story' and traces her husband's experiences of the ghettoes and concentration camps, before he was liberated and came t...
Title: Henry Posner
Category: Oxford
Description: Henry Posner was a well-known senior member of the OJC who spoke vividly and entertainingly about his memories of Oxford past at the Oxford Jewish Memory Day in 2007. Sadly he passed away a few month...
Category: Oxford
Description: Henry Posner was a well-known senior member of the OJC who spoke vividly and entertainingly about his memories of Oxford past at the Oxford Jewish Memory Day in 2007. Sadly he passed away a few month...
Title: Hemel Hampstead Evacuee Memories
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: In this piece Judith Taylor recalls being an evacuee in World War II Hemel Hampstead. Judith now lives in the United States and before retirement worked as a neurologist and in medical administration...
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: In this piece Judith Taylor recalls being an evacuee in World War II Hemel Hampstead. Judith now lives in the United States and before retirement worked as a neurologist and in medical administration...
Title: Growing Up in World War II
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Anita Lewis recalls moving and growing up in Brighton in World War II.
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Anita Lewis recalls moving and growing up in Brighton in World War II.
Title: Exodus
Category: Bradford
Description: Rudi Leavor recounts how he and his family fled their home in Berlin, in Nazi Germany, to Bradford and how they adapted to their new life and countr
Category: Bradford
Description: Rudi Leavor recounts how he and his family fled their home in Berlin, in Nazi Germany, to Bradford and how they adapted to their new life and countr
Title: Diana White Remembers Jewish Brighton and Hove
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: In this interview Betty Skolnick talks with Diana White at her home in Hove, 24 April 2003, and Diana White recalls Jewish Brighton from the late 1920s onwards, with important recollections of the for...
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: In this interview Betty Skolnick talks with Diana White at her home in Hove, 24 April 2003, and Diana White recalls Jewish Brighton from the late 1920s onwards, with important recollections of the for...
Title: Derek's Froomberg's Story - Childhood in Brackley During World War II
Category: Brackley
Description: Derek was interviewed by members of Northampton Youth Forum in August 2008 as part of a community history project with Jtrails, Northampton Museum, NBHA and Inspiration FM. The project aims to create...
Category: Brackley
Description: Derek was interviewed by members of Northampton Youth Forum in August 2008 as part of a community history project with Jtrails, Northampton Museum, NBHA and Inspiration FM. The project aims to create...
Title: Coming of Age - The First Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue Bat Mitzvah
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Louise Jay Mordecai recalls her traditional Jewish coming of age, the Bat Mitzvah, the first at Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, s previously young members had had a Jewish confirmation servic...
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Louise Jay Mordecai recalls her traditional Jewish coming of age, the Bat Mitzvah, the first at Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, s previously young members had had a Jewish confirmation servic...
Title: Chorley Wood Jewish Evacuees
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Alec Tuckman writes about his war-time memories when he was evacuated to Chorley Wood
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: Alec Tuckman writes about his war-time memories when he was evacuated to Chorley Wood
Title: Childhood memories of North Laine
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Linda Freedman recalls the sights, sounds and smells of North Laine, Brighton
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Linda Freedman recalls the sights, sounds and smells of North Laine, Brighton
Title: Brighton in the 1950s
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Bryan Brooks recalls the 1950s in Brighton as a happy era for himself and his friends.
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Bryan Brooks recalls the 1950s in Brighton as a happy era for himself and his friends.
Title: Brighton and Hove Memories of Derek Jay
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Derek Jay recalls how he came to Brighton from London, his long association with the Liberal synagogue in Brighton and Hove and its youth group and attitudes towards the Liberal movement.
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Derek Jay recalls how he came to Brighton from London, his long association with the Liberal synagogue in Brighton and Hove and its youth group and attitudes towards the Liberal movement.
Title: Bobby Silk, (1899 -- 1991)
Category: Oxford
Description: Bobby Silk, an East-Ender by origin, was a well known commercial figure in the Oxford Jewish community, with an interesting personal story. He was also one of the few Jewish townsmen in Oxford in the...
Category: Oxford
Description: Bobby Silk, an East-Ender by origin, was a well known commercial figure in the Oxford Jewish community, with an interesting personal story. He was also one of the few Jewish townsmen in Oxford in the...
Title: Aryeh House School in Wales during World War II
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Mark Negin, recalls being evacuated to Wales during the War.
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Mark Negin, recalls being evacuated to Wales during the War.
Title: Areya House School and Bronwydd Castle, Wales, in World War II
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Aubrey Zaft recalls how Areya House School, of Hove, was evacuated to rural Wales in World War II and his experiences there. Other Jewish schools were also evacuated to Wales at the time, including W...
Category: Brighton & Hove
Description: Aubrey Zaft recalls how Areya House School, of Hove, was evacuated to rural Wales in World War II and his experiences there. Other Jewish schools were also evacuated to Wales at the time, including W...
Title: A Jewish Employee of the World War II French Secret Agents of 'Section Buckmaster',
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: The following is a fascinating account by R.B. of her experiences of working as part of 'Section Buckmaster', which controlled French secret agents during the Second World War. R.B. worked in a cleri...
Category: Miscellaneous
Description: The following is a fascinating account by R.B. of her experiences of working as part of 'Section Buckmaster', which controlled French secret agents during the Second World War. R.B. worked in a cleri...
Title: A CHATHAM DELINQUENT - THE FORGERY AND SUICIDE OF NATHANIEL ISAACS, 1839.
Category: Chatham and Rochester
Description: In 1839 the principal Jewish family of Chatham - the Isaacs - suffered a devastating tragedy and blow to their reputation. Their 22-year-old son, Nathaniel, committed suicide by poison in Dover, afte...
Category: Chatham and Rochester
Description: In 1839 the principal Jewish family of Chatham - the Isaacs - suffered a devastating tragedy and blow to their reputation. Their 22-year-old son, Nathaniel, committed suicide by poison in Dover, afte...
One of the leading medieval communities in England, Northampton's Jews were given the boot in 1290. However, seven centuries later they would return to give the boot to Northampton. Read More
