Ursula Rosenfeld was born in 1925 in Quakenbrck, Germany to a Liberal Jewish family. Following Hitler's rise to power in 1933, they were ostracised and thrown out of their home. On Kristallnacht, the Quakenbrck synagogue was burned down, and her father was arrested and beaten by the Nazis. He was transported to Buchenwald and died there.
Ursula and her sister escaped to England on the Kindertransport in 1938, leaving their mother and infirm grandmother behind. In 1940, Ursula was apprenticed to a dressmaker in London and then trained as a nurse. She married her husband Peter in 1946. After moving to Manchester in 1958, Ursula worked as a theatre nurse, went on to become a health visitor and was appointed a magistrate on the Manchester bench.
Ursula'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.
By:
The Fed
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 7mm
Weight: 142g
ISBN: 9781526186973
ISBN 10: 1526186977
Series: My Voice: The Remarkable Life Stories of Holocaust Survivors
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 02 January 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1 Time to tell my story 2 My parents 3 Quakenbrück 4 The first terrible blow 5 Life becomes harder 6 A strange dream 7 Kristallnacht 8 A terrible loss 9 The Jewish orphanage 10 That’s how fate treats you 11 Finding our way to Bloomsbury House 12 Mrs Shepherd 13 School in Sussex 14 Hella trains to be a nurse 15 Beading ball gowns 16 London during the Blitz 17 Living on tea and buns 18 A pale and emaciated young girl 19 Meeting Peter 20 Mother – no parting, no end, no funeral 21 My wedding 22 In at the deep end and along came Ruth 23 George Cadbury’s bungalow 24 Peter becomes a manager 25 A growing family 26 You need roots 27 My sister Hella went back to Germany 28 Coming to Manchester 29 Schooldays 30 Travel 31 My Working Life 32 Peter’s Retirement, and an MBE 33 Losing Peter 34 Werner 35 My 80th Birthday 36 The Spielberg Foundation 37 ‘Into the Arms of Strangers’ 38 Edith and I are reunited 39 Lest we forget 40 Visits to Quakenbrück 41 Those who were lost, and those who survived 42 My Children 43 More British than the British My Voice volunteers About The Fed -- .
The Fed is Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. In June 2021, The Fed were awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service for the My Voice Project, the highest possible accolade for a voluntary sector group.
