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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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