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Jackie Young, one of our interviewees, who has spent much of his life trying to find information about his birth parents, left BBC...

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...

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

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...

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 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 looked at individual acts of kindness experienced by our interviewees, often from ordinary members of the public, although...

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...

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...

To celebrate pupils returning to school, we have launched an online exhibition featuring ten of our interviewees with their Schultüten,...

By Dr. Bea Lewkowicz A few weeks ago, I conducted another socially distant interview for AJR Refugee Voices in London. This time, we...

Dr Bea Lewkowicz, Director of the AJR’s Refugee Voices Archive describes how the luxury of extra time afforded by the national lockdown...

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...

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....

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...