‘We were thrown around by the tides of history’: Kinder interviews in the Archive
One of my first interviews with a former Kind was with Richard Grunberger, one of the former editors of the AJR Journal. He had come from...
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AJR Refugee Voices team
- Oct 31
- 1 min
New Interviews
We have been recording lots of new interviews. Many refugees and survivors want to give their testimony to the archive. We have recently...
bealewkowicz
- Sep 15
- 3 min
Happy New Year
I would like to wish all our interviewees, their families, and our supporters a happy, healthy, and sweet new year 5784! The Refugee...
bealewkowicz
- May 3
- 5 min
Reflections on the International Testimony Forum
The International Testimony Forum provided a wonderful opportunity for politicians, academics, researchers, journalists, anyone working...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Feb 15
- 4 min
Why Testimony Matters
Ahead of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, PM Rishi Sunak praised the courage of Holocaust survivors and announced that parliament will...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jan 9
- 3 min
Looking Back To The Future
On 8 January 2003 I carried out the first interview for the then newly founded Refugee Voices Archive. The interviewee was Elena...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
Seasons Greetings from our Director
As we are in the middle of celebrating the Jewish festival of Chanukah and looking forward to 2023, I would like to take this opportunity...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Dec 2, 2022
- 2 min
Holocaust Testimony Conference
Remembering and Rethinking: The International Forum on Collecting, Preserving, and Disseminating Holocaust Testimonies London, Lancaster...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jul 7, 2022
- 3 min
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...
AJR Refugee Voices team
- Jul 4, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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...
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