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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 7, 20223 min read
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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
Jun 1, 20222 min read
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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...
bealewkowicz
Mar 28, 20222 min read
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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...
bealewkowicz
Sep 17, 20212 min read
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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 23, 20214 min read
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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 30, 20211 min read
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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
Jun 22, 20211 min read
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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 27, 20211 min read
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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...
AJR Refugee Voices team
May 13, 20211 min read
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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...
Dr Jana Buresova
Apr 16, 20216 min read
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The Last Rabbi of Oranienburgerstrasse
This week we prepared for our live online event with Alisa Jaffa by rereading her testimony. Alisa's father, Dr Ignatz Maybaum, was rabbi...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Mar 4, 20211 min read
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Acts of Kindness
This week we looked at individual acts of kindness experienced by our interviewees, often from ordinary members of the public, although...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Jan 14, 20211 min read
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Weekly update October 22
This week we were very sad to hear of the deaths of two of our interviewees. Henry Ebner was a lawyer and AJR member who was involved in...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Oct 22, 20201 min read
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Interview with Yvonne A.
By Dr Bea Lewkowicz On Tuesday this week the weather was on our side and we were lucky that we could conduct another garden interview...
Dr Bea Lewkowicz
Sep 24, 20201 min read
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Schultüte: Welcome Back To School
To celebrate pupils returning to school, we have launched an online exhibition featuring ten of our interviewees with their Schultüten,...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Sep 2, 20201 min read
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Socially-Distant Oral History
By Dr. Bea Lewkowicz A few weeks ago, I conducted another socially distant interview for AJR Refugee Voices in London. This time, we...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Aug 27, 20203 min read
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Encounters With Hitler
Dr Bea Lewkowicz, Director of the AJR’s Refugee Voices Archive describes how the luxury of extra time afforded by the national lockdown...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Jun 25, 20207 min read
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Rabbi Harry Jacobi
We've made a new LIVES IN FOCUS short on Rabbi Harry Jacobi, one of the major figures in British Liberal Judaism. On May 22 it will be 81...
AJR Refugee Voices team
May 21, 20202 min read
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First Zoom Remote Interview
By Dr Bea Lewkowicz I am very pleased to say that we have conducted our first Zoom Remote interview with child survivor Martin Stern MBE....
bealewkowicz
May 1, 20201 min read
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Covid-19 & the Resonance of the Archive
For those of us who work on AJR Refugee Voices this strange time has a particular resonance. Normally, we work day-to-day with the...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Apr 2, 20202 min read
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