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Description: | Harry Blacker's parents immigrated to London from Eastern Europe. In the early years of the 20th century, many Jews were leaving the region to escape anti-Semitism and to find a better life.
Harry's parents arrived in London and settled in Whitechapel, in the East End, where there was a thriving Jewish community. The area is now home to many Muslim Londoners. Harry was born in 1910, when his parents moved to Bethnal Green.
When the family first arrived, his parents spoke Russian and Yiddish, which Harry spoke until he went to school. When he began to learn English, he taught his parents. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Communities Identity and Icons | Temporal: | 1910-1919 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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