Overview

Jackie Young was born in 1941 in Austria. He was a child survivor of Theresienstadt concentration camp where he spent two years and eight months before liberation by the Soviet Army in May 1945. He came to England at nearly four years old and was adopted by a loving couple, the Janofskys, who told him nothing about his background. Jackie learned he was adopted at age nine when a boy at school told him and he started to understand why he always felt different from everyone else. Jackie's life since has been a 70 year-long quest to find out the truth. Bit by bit, Jackie has uncovered the missing pieces of his background. He learned his mother was killed at 32 at Maly Trostenets near Minsk, most likely shot by the Nazis along with a further estimated 200,000 Jews. He also feared his father was a Nazi as his mother was unmarried, he went on the TV show 'DNA Family Secrets' in 2022 to discover the truth. Now a retired London taxi driver, Jackie has been married to the love of his life Lita for 60 years and has many treasures now their two daughters and three grandchildren. Jackie'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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Author:   The Fed
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.185kg
ISBN:  

9781526192486

ISBN 10:   1526192489
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   29 April 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1 A complicated beginning 2 Meeting the couple who became my parents 3 Memories in dreams 4 My new extended family 5 From fostering to adoption 6 The secret comes out 7 Card games and classical music 8 Grandma Polly drops a bombshell 9 Love and tension with my parents 10 Entering the world of work 11 Meeting the love of my life 12 Discovering I was a Holocaust survivor 13 The house from my dreams 14 Getting married and starting our family 15 Visiting Vienna, land of my birth 16 Two figures from my past 17 A face I knew from childhood 18 The door to my past opens wider 19 Discovery, despair, destruction 20 Two passengers in my cab 21 Mourning in Minsk 22 My pain as a child survivor 23 The Red Cross comes up trumps 24 Remembering with stones 25 Wounds that wouldn’t heal 26 An impossible dream comes true 27 My treasure, my family Glossary My Voice volunteers About The Fed -- .

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The Fed is Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. In June of 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.

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