If you have a story that you would like adding to this collection then please contact Ros Adam by email at rosalind.kathryn@gmail.com.
Individual stories in alphabetical order by surname:
- Nina Rosina Berger – The First Burial
- John Cooklin – The cabinet maker who played football for England
- Millie Dove – Matron of the First British Jewish Convalescent Home
- Trude and Isidor Dub
- Adolph Zalkin Germains – Inventor and Adventurer
- Tiny and Jack Goldberg
- Mac and Ruth Goldsmith – Inventor and Freeman of the City of Leicester
- Harold and Eva Gordon
- Anne and David Jacobs – A Tale of Two Orphans
- Sue Jacobs – A Woman of Worth
- The Jacobs of Leicester – Beginning with their entry in the 1911 census
- A Wartime Romance – Eddie and Rosa Lebens
- Otto and Hannah Levy – A Community Couple
- Geoffrey Louis – Say little and do much
- Benjamin Marks – the World War One Despatch Rider with medals for bravery
- Kurt and Elfrieda Munzer – An Escape Story
- Reverend Abraham Newman
- Margaret Oakfield – A Memorial for her parents after 72 years
- Jack Paul – the Boy from Swansea
- Maurice Rosen – Victim of a Motor Accident
- The Salem Story – From Turkey to Leicester via Egypt, Germany, France and Clacton-on-Sea
- Nancie and Edward Shieff – and it all began with a raffle ticket
- Monty and Anne Simmons
- Leopold and Julia Wacks – a Victorian Family
Group stories about more than one family:
- Leicester Blitz
- Leicester Market Traders – the Market Minyan
- Tailors – From Small Workshops to Big Business
These stories represent a limited history of Leicester’s Orthodox Jewish Community. They include immigrants who came to England from the Russian Pale of Settlement, from Latvia, Turkey, Germany; many were escaping persecution, some severe economic hardship; (visit Origins of Sephardi and Ashkenazi for more details). They include evacuees coming to Leicester during the Second World War to avoid the London blitz, servicemen and civilians, active participants in Leicester life, poor people, business people; all with one common link; they chose Leicester as their home and they were buried at Jewish Gilroes.