Stories tagged "Family": 94
Stories
"I Want to Go Home"
"They evacuated the London school kids again ‘cause he concentrated on London pretty much this next time. And so, once again, the kids were rounded up and this time we went to Torquay in Devonshire in the west coast of England. Actually, quite…
A World at War
"Well, I do remember hearing the radio broadcast because the very next day my father, who could rent his cab—he had to pay the owner of the cab, but he could rent it himself—he took us away into the country, right away. Because the government…
In the City
"I was born on the twenty-seventh of March 1932 in East London, in the borough of East Ham in the community called Manor Park.
My father was Frederick John Thomas Davies.
My father started off at that brewery, working as a brick layer…
The Statue of Liberty
"On the sixteenth of November of 1950, we boarded the U.S.S. General Belleau which was a converted type Army transport ship.
My father was able to get a job in the commissary on the ship, so we had pretty good food. They had places for…
Displaced Once Again
"[At the] end of 1947 we were transferred to a camp called Beth Israel outside of town called Hallein, which is about fifty miles east of Salzburg. And in this particular camp, there were actual rooms.
It had a door. It had a…
Atrocities in the Ukraine
"My mother's family, her brothers, and her parents were taken to outside of Kiev at Babi Yar-- where they were made to dig their own graves. And were lined up and shot in the back of the head.
Both of her sisters survived the Holocaust…
Living in the Priest's Grotto Caves
"[The German invasion] forced most of the young Jews into hiding, into groups of resistance fighters living in the caves. Living in the forest. Coming out at night trying to get food. Or do whatever damage they could to the Germans. The…
Father's Hometown of Lublin
"My father was born in Lublin, Poland. 1919. He was a student. My father was the youngest of sixteen children. Fifteen of those children were girls. He basically was just a typical teenager -- growing up with a fairly Orthodox Jewish…
Mother's Hometown of Kremenchug
"I was born April 24, 1941. In a small town called Kremenchug. About fifty miles east of Kiev in the Ukraine.
My mother was born in Kremenchug, Russia in the Ukraine. 1916. She was one of six children. She had two sisters and three…
Arriving in Atlanta
"About three or four o’clock in the afternoon we came into Atlanta Terminal Station in downtown. And we sat there on the train. The train stopped. I guess if the train had a different destination than Atlanta, we would have gone on. We didn’t…