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antisemitism
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Buchenwald
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concentration camps
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Germany
Holocaust
Holocaust education
Holocaust refugee
Holocaust survivor
Holocaust testimony
identity
Kristallnacht
liberation
memory
refugee experience
resilience
Second World War
Shoah
Theresienstadt
Windermere
World War 2
Product details
- ISBN 9781807073169
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Growing up in Cologne in the 1920s and 1930s, Kurt Marx witnessed the steady destruction of Jewish life as Nazi ideology took hold. Anti-Jewish laws stripped families of livelihoods, rights, and safety, while public humiliation and violence became commonplace. As persecution deepened, Kurt saw his community collapse and his own future disappear. After Kristallnacht, increasing restrictions forced him into labour and eventually into the wider Nazi camp system, where hunger, brutality, and relentless fear shaped daily survival. In early 1945, as Germany fell, he was driven across the country on deadly forced marches. After liberation, he faced profound loss while searching for surviving relatives and rebuilding his life. Settling in Manchester, he created a new future shaped by resilience. His testimony forms part of My Voice, The Fed’s project preserving Holocaust survivors’ recorded life stories for future generations.
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.
