The British Library The British Library Anonymous, 1932- (6 of 9) C0410X0007XX-06 C0410/007 Interviewee's note: interviewee was born in Prague, in a non-practising Jewish family, agnostic. Detailed account of early life and childhood. German invasion of Czechoslovakia; Kindertransport. She arrived in England the 20th of July 1939. Description of a difficult life with foster family. 1947 visit to Prague and Terezin. She was told by aunt and uncle that her parents had died in a concentration camp. She became a nurse and trained as a psychiatric social worker at London School of Economics. She married a non-Jew. Discussion about her children's "Jewishness". Subsequent life and family, feelings about separation from her children. Hostility towards Germans, effect of Holocaust on her whole life. sound Part 6: She started working as a nurse at the age of 16 at a children's orthopaedic hospital; and she got general nursing training at a local hospital. At that time she also had her first relationship with opposite sex. After being qualified as a nurse, she did 6 months midwifery. Subsequently at 21, was trained as a psychiatric social worker at the London School of Economics. Description of her feelings when she first started living away from her foster home. She received psychiatric treatment once a week for two years during her period at LSE from a University psychiatrist. After her training she was offered a job at King's College Hospital. She changed to Middlesex Hospital after four years. While she was satisfied with her job achievements she felt a increasing loneliness and developed glandular fever (mononucleosis). She met her husband, a microbiologist, over lunch in hospital canteen. He is not Jewish so they had a civil wedding. Anonymous, 1932- (speaker, female) Glassman, Gaby (speaker, male) Glassman, Gaby 1988-11-10, 1988-11-17 and 1988-12-01 Interviewee's home The Living Memory of the Jewish Community none © The British Library Board C0410X0007XX-06 Anonymous, 1932- IVE Glassman, Gaby IVR Glassman, Gaby RCE CKEY5213295 Anonymous, 1932- 6 of 9 Anonymous, 1932- (6 of 9) Anonymous, 1932- The Living Memory of the Jewish Community 1988 © The British Library 00:30:34 96000 24 2 176119808 00:30:34 96000 24 2 176078848 00:30:26 44100 128 kbps 2 00:30:26 44100 128 kbps 2 tape, compact cassette