Project members spent a year interviewing community elders and visiting sites of historical significance as part of a project called Michepoche - the Yiddish word for family. Funding came through Young Roots - the Heritage Lottery Fund and National Youth Agency programme
supporting youth groups to connect with heritage issues.
The CD contains text and pictures that trace the development of community structures such as schools, youth organisations and synagogues. It also looks at aspects such as the geographical shift in the focus of the community from areas such as Strangeways and Cheetham Hill in the 1920s out to suburbs including Prestwich and Whitefield in North Manchester and Fallowfield and Didsbury in South Manchester. Historical sections look at the impact of the Second World War on their grandparents' generation, both locally through bombings, evacuation and rationing and more broadly through the Holocaust.
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