Photographs Related To The Jewish Lads Brigade
Goldstone, Abraham, b 1910, of Prestwich, Manchester
1920-1960
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Photographs Related To The Jewish Lads Brigade
1920-1960
GB124.DPA/687
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Abraham (Pudsie) was born in 1910 in Mary Street, Strangeways to Jewish parents from Odess on the borders of Russia and Poland. They had come to Manchester in 1905/6. His father was a master cabinet maker and his mother a dressmaker. Pudsie was the 6th of 6 children and went to the Jews School. He was an active member of JLB with which he was connected - running the table tennis team - until his death in c.1979. He worked his way through JLB ranks till he became 2nd Lieutenant. On leaving school he became a traveller for a wholesale haberdashery firm. He married in 1938 and went to live in Prestwich.
(Since this interview the depositor has died (c.1979))
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