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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...

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

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...

This week we celebrated our thousandth follower on Twitter. We heard about Ursula Gilbert's experience of fostering in Brondesbury: And...

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

This week we immersed ourselves in some of the experiences of our interviewees during the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht): We were also...

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...

This week we began an extended look at the experiences of the 28 of our interviewees who experienced domestic service. You can see them...

In this week of Jewish New Year, we featured this fantastic photo and quote from Sara Kraus-Lefkovitz: And this beautiful scroll cover...

This week archive Director Dr Bea Lewkowicz interviewed Selma van de Perre in a live Zoom event. They discussed her experiences and her...

This week, to mark the reopening of schools, we launched SCHULTÜTE: WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL, an online exhibition featuring 10...

This week we commemorated the 75th anniversary of VJ Day by revisiting the testimony of Freddie Boxer, who spent much of the war interned...

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, alongside many other accounts relating to Jewish history and experience, we observed a silence on...

This week we were excited to see the new Hidden Treasures website: www.celebratingjewisharchives.org. This is the Board of Deputy's new...

This week we were amazed to see the two burnt pages of a prayer book rescued by Hans Danziger's father from Oranienburgerstrasse...