Leon Silver is the only Jew in the East End square where he lives.
He is the President of the East London Central Synagogue and also attends iftars and is welcomed at the East London Mosque.
He reflects on navigating challenges with shared history and community bonds.
He is the President of the East London Central Synagogue and also attends iftars and is welcomed at the East London Mosque.
He reflects on navigating challenges with shared history and community bonds.
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00:10 I was born in '75 near Denmark, late 1948.
00:15 That was known as the post-war baby boom.
00:18 I have an older brother, he was a baby, he wasn't one year old when the first world war began.
00:26 I've got cousins like that as well, big gang.
00:30 I was born quite late to my parents, when I was 48.
00:35 I was born in the early 30s, in those days, that was quite old particularly for a woman to have a baby.
00:43 Not like now.
00:44 The editing was so completely different.
00:47 We did it in four rooms, that includes one room that was the kitchen.
00:51 Then we had what we called the dining room which was the front of the two bedrooms.
00:56 My brother and I shared it, along with my parents, the other room.
01:00 It was damp, the bedrooms had no heat in at all, we just had to put water bottles in.
01:05 Fireplace had been sealed off before my parents moved in.
01:10 There was bomb damage all around, a huge bomb had been planted in one of these rooms.
01:15 I went to the primary school obviously, a big bomb was planted in the back of that, in the side of that.
01:22 And of course she was perfectly normal because I didn't know anything else.
01:25 else.
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