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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 excited to see the first fruits of our partnership with the Board of Deputies, whose Hidden Treasures project will...

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...

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

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...

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...

Frank Henderson's UK Visa This week the Association of Jewish Refugee's commemorative plaque scheme went international with the unveiling...

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

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....

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

By: Kristin Baumgartner, Archival Researcher @krbaumgartner This is a poem written by Eve Gill's aunt Lisi on March 13, 1939, just before...

Dr Jana Buresova is one of the Archive's interviewers. She is a committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile...

The festival of Passover is starting tomorrow. This year our experience of the Seder will be very different, we are separated from our...

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...