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Henry Isaacs - Chad Gadya |
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 “I was born in Glasgow on 17th July 1924 at number 4a Abbotsford Place. There was my brother Abie and another brother Louis, and my step brothers. My half-brother was Harold. Then there were Jo, Walter, Ray and Rosie.
There is music in our family - you may have heard of Adrian Isaacs. He was a conductor with the choral society. My grandson is also very musical and I sung in a choir for years.
I went to Abbotsford Place School, to Talmud Torah in Turrif Street in the Gorbals, and attended the Great Synagogue in South Portland Street.
My parents came from Russia - my mother came from Odessa; her first husband was Russian but he joined the British army and was killed in the First World War. Then she married my father. I can’t remember exactly where he came from but it was somewhere in Lithuania. My brother will know - he’s older than me but he remembers more than I do! He left Lithuania because of the pogroms and travelled by sea from Vilna. He was a commercial traveller - he sold mirrors and cutlery etc.
Some of the family went to America and I still keep in touch with them.”
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