Lesson 2 – Communities
Item 1 Viraj Mendis Defence Campaign poster
ain Image: Manchester Archive Ref SC.C.PO.46.5 M https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/15876037431/in/album-72157647137824854/
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Item 2 Character card (Solomon Myer Laserson, Russian-born mill-owner) Name: Solomon Myer Laserson Native town: Zagare in Lithuania When did I come to Manchester? In the 1880s Why have I come to Manchester? To escape violence in my home country. Jewish people in Lithuania are violently persecuted. I am Jewish. It was not safe to stay there.
What do I do now I live in Manchester? I own a mill here and run a successful business. What else can I tell you? I use money that I make to help other Jewish people to escape from Lithuania. Some stay in Britain. Some travel on to the United States of America.
Item 3 Character card (Mr Zattman and family, c.1906, Polish ‘clicker’) Name: Harry Zattman Native town: Warsaw in Poland When did I come to Manchester? In 1888 Why have I come to Manchester? To escape violence in my home country. Jewish people in Poland are violently persecuted. I am Jewish, so it was not safe to stay.
What do I do now I live in Manchester? I am a ‘clicker’; that is to say a slipper-maker. What else can I tell you? I can go to work and my family is safe here in Manchester. I live in Hightown and my eldest son Norman was born on Oswald Street in Manchester in 1894.
Item 4 Character card (Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Cassel Fox Hostel, Manchester) Name: I am now called Harold Linton, but I was born Heinz Lilienthal
What do I do now I live in Manchester? I have found work in a warehouse.
Native town: Regensburg in Germany
What else can I tell you? My father escaped to Germany from persecution against Jews in Russia. My friends in this photograph are all Jewish boys who have escaped to Manchester from Nazi Germany and Austria.
When did I come to Manchester? In 1939 Why have I come to Manchester? To escape from my home country. Jewish people in Germany and Austria are violently persecuted. I am Jewish. It was not safe to stay there. My father was beaten to death one night.
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Item 5 Photograph showing a ‘Free Ukraine’ demonstration, nd, probably late 1945 to 1953
Additional info: At the end of the Second World War, the republic of Ukraine became a ‘satellite’ of the Soviet Union. It had to do what it was told. Main Image: Manchester Archives Ref M793 Untitled Ukrainian Photo 19 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/5690729482/in/album-72157625763119948
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Item 6 Frank Stassen, a cutter at Blackley, 1915
Additional info: Frank was a cutter like his father before him. He was a Dutch citizen. He lived in Belgium when the German army invaded at the start of the First World War. Because he was Dutch he argued that he should be allowed to leave. He came to Britain where he worked as a cutter. Main Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/5212992144/in/album-72157626772914133/
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Item 7 Photograph showing a meeting of 86 members of the Armenian community for collecting funds for Armenian refugees escaping from Turkey to other countries 1918–20
dditional info: Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were persecuted from the 1870s, but by 1915 this had become a genocide. A Main Image: Manchester Archives Ref GB124.DPA/1827/1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/9249373148/in/album-72157634561006103/
Item 8 Character card (Professor Michael Polanyi on a hike in England, c.1933) Name: Professor Michael Polanyi, but I was born Pollacsek Mihály
heritage means that I am at risk of violence or murder in Germany.
Native town: Budapest, in Hungary, which used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
What do I do now I live in Manchester? I teach at The University of Manchester.
When did I come to Manchester? In 1933
What else can I tell you? The University has created a new department of social sciences for me. Two of my students went on to win a Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Why have I come to Manchester? The Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933. Although I am a Roman Catholic I was born to Jewish parents, and my
Manchester Archives Ref GB124.DPA/1412/154 Main image < https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/5213045000/in/album-72157625355748361/