Family Secrets bring closure
Jackie Young, one of our interviewees, who has spent much of his life trying to find information about his birth parents, left BBC...
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AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jul 4
- 2 min
New partnerships, July 2022
We are happy to announce two new partnerships, which will enable the AJR Refugee Voices interviews to be watched and used by wider...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jun 1
- 2 min
AJR Refugee Voices & The Queen's Jubilee
Ahead of the Queen’s Jubilee, I am thinking about the importance of the Royal Family for the lives of our interviewees. I remember very...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Apr 13
- 1 min
Kindertransport Exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Westphalen
On Sunday, 10 April 2022, the Jewish Museum of Westphalen, located in Dorsten, opened a new exhibition on the Kindertransport, entitled...
bealewkowicz
- Mar 28
- 2 min
Fostering Kindertransportees
A few weeks ago, the AJR Refugee Voices website received a query regarding Dr Herbert Edmonds, who came to the UK on a Kindertransport...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jan 19
- 3 min
Remembering Together
Remembering Together: AJR Refugee Voices Holocaust Memorial Day Event 2022. On January 18 we held our event for HMD. Kurt Marx, who came...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Dec 27, 2021
- 5 min
2021 Year in Review
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...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Oct 13, 2021
- 1 min
Sharing the Story
This week we looked at the choices our interviewees made about sharing, or not sharing, their stories with their children. We also looked...
bealewkowicz
- Sep 23, 2021
- 1 min
Next Generation Voices
After having interviewed first generation refugees and survivors for the last 18 years, I am very excited to announce that we have...
bealewkowicz
- Sep 17, 2021
- 2 min
Remembering Lili Stern-Pohlmann MBE
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...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jul 23, 2021
- 4 min
Speaking German
One of the questions Dr. Bea Lewkowicz, Director of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive asks every interviewee is about their...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jul 21, 2021
- 2 min
Visit to the Wiener Holocaust Library
Yesterday Archive Director Dr Bea Lewkowicz and Head of Digital Susanna Kleeman visited the Wiener Holocaust Library to deposit the...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jun 30, 2021
- 1 min
George Badacsonyi: In Hiding In Hungary
This week we looked at the testimony of George Badasconyi, born in Hungary, who came to Britain in 1957 after winning a Ford Foundation...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jun 22, 2021
- 1 min
Gerta Vrbova: In Hiding In Slovakia & Hungary
Gerta Vrbova spent part of the war in hiding in Slovakia and Hungary, crossing the border under different false papers several times. Her...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
Honouring two of our interviewees
This week we were so happy to celebrate the achievements and milestones of two of our interviewees. On Wednesday May 26th we celebrated...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
In Hiding In Italy
This week we looked at the powerful, detailed and moving testimony of Cesare Sacerdoti, who, aged 5 in 1943, was sent with his younger...
Dr Jana Buresova
- Apr 16, 2021
- 6 min
Youth at the forefront: HRH Duke of Edinburgh and Progressive Schools in Exile
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...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
Hiding in Belgium
This week on social media we revisited the testimony of four of our interviewees who spent part of the war in hiding in Belgium.
Dr Bea Lewkowicz
- Apr 8, 2021
- 2 min
Yom HaShoah 2021
By Dr Bea Lewkowicz Yom HaShoah, 8 April 2021 We started conducting video interviews for the AJR Refugee Voices Archive in 2003, 18 years...
Dr Bea Lewkowicz
- Mar 26, 2021
- 2 min
Happy Pesach from the Archive
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...