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Jan 14
1 min

Acts of Kindness

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Nov 5, 2020
1 min

Weekly Update November 5

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Oct 22, 2020
1 min

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

Sep 24, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up September 24th

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Sep 21, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up, September 18

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Sep 11, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up, September 10

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Sep 4, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up: September 4

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Aug 26, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up, August 27

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Aug 3, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up, July 30th

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Jul 22, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up July 23

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Jul 10, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up, July 9

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

AJR Refugee Voices team

Jul 2, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up, July 2

This week we were sorry to hear of the death of our interviewee Emeritus Professor Tom Arie CBE, an influential psychiatrist who left Pra...

AJR Refugee Voices team

Jun 25, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up, June 27

This week we discovered that two of our interviewees, Margaret Simmons and Edgar Feuchtwanger, had personal encounters with Hitler on two...

AJR Refugee Voices team

Jun 22, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up June 21

This week we continued to explore the wealth of material in the archive about internment. We learned about Erna Klein's experiences as th...

AJR Refugee Voices team

Jun 15, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up June 15

This week we commemorated the 80th anniversary of World War British refugee internment with a new Internment microsite. This features the...

AJR Refugee Voices team

Jun 3, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up June 3

It was the week of the Jewish festival of Shavuot. We saw from our transcripts that several of our interviewees arrived in Auschwitz and ...

AJR Refugee Voices team

May 27, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up May 28

This week we celebrated the 94th birthday of composer Joseph Horovitz, born in Vienna in 1926. Joseph's birthday was also celebrated by B...

AJR Refugee Voices team

May 21, 2020
1 min

Weekly Round Up May 21

This week we commemorated the life of Rabbi Harry Jacobi with a new LIVES IN FOCUS short film. Rabbi Jacobi was one of the major figures ...

AJR Refugee Voices team

May 12, 2020
1 min

Weekly Roundup May 5

This week we commemorated the seventy-fifth anniversary of VE Day and camp liberations. We released a short film of VE Day testimonies: W...

AJR Refugee Voices team

May 1, 2020
1 min

Social Media Highlights April 27- May 1

This week we celebrated the birthday of Eva Clarke, born on April 29, 1945 outside the gates of Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria:...

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