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On Sunday, 10 April 2022, the Jewish Museum of Westphalen, located in Dorsten, opened a new exhibition on the Kindertransport, entitled...

A few weeks ago, the AJR Refugee Voices website received a query regarding Dr Herbert Edmonds, who came to the UK on a Kindertransport...

Remembering Together: AJR Refugee Voices Holocaust Memorial Day Event 2022. On January 18 we held our event for HMD. Kurt Marx, who came...

Message from Director Dr Bea Lewkowicz As the year 2021 is coming to an end, it is time to look back and think about the future. We have...

This week we looked at the choices our interviewees made about sharing, or not sharing, their stories with their children. We also looked...

After having interviewed first generation refugees and survivors for the last 18 years, I am very excited to announce that we have...

On the eve of Yom Kippur, I discovered the sad news that Lili Stern-Pohlmann MBE had passed away. Since interviewing her for the AJR...

One of the questions Dr. Bea Lewkowicz, Director of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive asks every interviewee is about their...

Yesterday Archive Director Dr Bea Lewkowicz and Head of Digital Susanna Kleeman visited the Wiener Holocaust Library to deposit the...

This week we looked at the testimony of George Badasconyi, born in Hungary, who came to Britain in 1957 after winning a Ford Foundation...

Gerta Vrbova spent part of the war in hiding in Slovakia and Hungary, crossing the border under different false papers several times. Her...

This week we were so happy to celebrate the achievements and milestones of two of our interviewees. On Wednesday May 26th we celebrated...

This week we looked at the powerful, detailed and moving testimony of Cesare Sacerdoti, who, aged 5 in 1943, was sent with his younger...

by Dr Jana Buresova Whilst our school days may not be the most memorable ones, the recent death of HRH Duke of Edinburgh and reports...

This week on social media we revisited the testimony of four of our interviewees who spent part of the war in hiding in Belgium.

By Dr Bea Lewkowicz Yom HaShoah, 8 April 2021 We started conducting video interviews for the AJR Refugee Voices Archive in 2003, 18 years...

Although this is our second Pesach in lockdown, I feel that our freedom is on the horizon and I am hopeful that we can soon re-start our...

This week we finished our commemoration of great women in the archive with another look at the testimony of Selma van der Perre: We...

This week we prepared for our live online event with Alisa Jaffa by rereading her testimony. Alisa's father, Dr Ignatz Maybaum, was rabbi...

This week we celebrated Purim with Bob Kirk's amazing Purim party photo from Hanover: We were very moved by Harry Bibring's letters from...