The My Voice Project is a unique initiative by The Fed, Manchester's leading social care charity serving the Jewish community. The My Voice Project empowers Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK to share their entire life stories including experiences before, during and after the war years. This project involves a bespoke methodological approach, producing books that preserve their unique voices. The My Voice Project ensures firsthand accounts are remembered and valued for future generations, highlighting the critical role of individual perspectives in ensuring a deeper historical understanding.

Jackie Young was born in 1941 in Austria. He was a child survivor of Theresienstadt concentration camp where he spent two years and eight months before liberation by the Soviet Army in May 1945. He came to England at nearly four years old and was adopted by a loving couple, the Janofskys, who told him nothing about his background.

Jackie learned he was adopted at age nine from a boy at school and started to understand why he always felt different from everyone else. His life since has been a 70 year-long quest to find out the truth.

Over the years, Jackie has slowly uncovered the missing pieces of his background. He learned his mother was killed at thirty two at Maly Trostenets near Minsk, most likely shot by the Nazis along with a further estimated 200,000 Jews. He also went on the 'DNA Family Secrets' TV show in 2022 to discover the truth about his father, who he feared was a Nazi, and found much longed-for relatives.

Now a retired London taxi driver, Jackie has been married to the love of his life Lita for 60 years and has many treasures now - their two daughters and three grandchildren.

Jackie's book is part of the My Voice book collection.