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After having interviewed first generation refugees and survivors for the last 18 years, I am very excited to announce that we have...

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...

Yesterday Archive Director Dr Bea Lewkowicz and Head of Digital Susanna Kleeman visited the Wiener Holocaust Library to deposit the...

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

By Dr Bea Lewkowicz Yom HaShoah, 8 April 2021 We started conducting video interviews for the AJR Refugee Voices Archive in 2003, 18 years...

Although this is our second Pesach in lockdown, I feel that our freedom is on the horizon and I am hopeful that we can soon re-start our...

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...

On Monday February 1 we held our first online event, the launch of the full-length version of our film VOICES FOR A BETTER WORLD,...

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

By: Dr Jana Buresova Food, an overview: Food, whether we acknowledge it or not, plays a large part in our lives, and signifies much more...

As this difficult year ends, we send our best wishes to you and your families. We have all got through 2020 in different ways. For those...