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Description: | Annetta Foreman (b 1923) grew up in the East End in the years preceding the Second World War. Here, in conversation with Mary Richards of Bishopsgate Institute, she talks of the arrival of her grandparents and uncle from Russia who were fleeing religious persecution. The late 19th and early 20th Centuries saw a large number of Jews fleeing wide-spread official and unofficial persecution in the Russian Empire. Jews in Russia at that time were forced to live under fearsome restrictions in an area known as the Pale of Settlement, which covered parts of modern Russia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania. Jewish people were also the regular targets of violent attacks, to which the authorities often turned a blind eye. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Communities | Temporal: | 2008 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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