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Oral history recording with Eve Pollecoff. One of a collection of interviews conducted by Cai Parry-Jones for his doctoral thesis entitled 'The History of the Jewish Diaspora in Wales'. Funded by the AHRC.

Born and raised in Kenya, Eve married Bernard Pollecoff of Pwllheli after meeting at Oxford University. Talks about the Pollecoff family of Pwllheli, their history, emigration from Russia and how they ended up in north Wales, her father-in-law Jack Pollecoff, Mayor of Pwllheli and a Welsh-speaker, Jewish life and families in north Wales.