In the footsteps of Vrba & Wetzler
I participated in the second walk of the Vrba-Wetzler memorial 2024, a few weeks after AJR 3G member Tom Horvath Neuman had finished his...
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Dr Bea Lewkowicz
Feb 64 min read
The Story of Ferdinand Brann's Guiding Principles
In 2019 Lord Finkelstein wrote an article about the AJR Refugee Voices Archive for the Jewish Chronicle. He said that the collected...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Jan 251 min read
Two Minutes Silence
Watch TWO MINUTES SILENCE, our film made to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the Kindertransport. It shows what is normally hidden:...
Dr Bea Lewkowicz
Dec 18, 20234 min read
The Archive's 2023 Round Up
As the year 2023 draws to an end, I have been reflecting on our achievements and activities of our archive in the last year. A big...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Nov 24, 20234 min read
‘We were thrown around by the tides of history’: Kinder interviews in the Archive
One of my first interviews with a former Kind was with Richard Grunberger, one of the former editors of the AJR Journal. He had come from...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Oct 31, 20231 min read
New Interviews
We have been recording lots of new interviews. Many refugees and survivors want to give their testimony to the archive. We have recently...
bealewkowicz
Sep 15, 20233 min read
Happy New Year
I would like to wish all our interviewees, their families, and our supporters a happy, healthy, and sweet new year 5784! The Refugee...
bealewkowicz
May 3, 20235 min read
Reflections on the International Testimony Forum
The International Testimony Forum provided a wonderful opportunity for politicians, academics, researchers, journalists, anyone working...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Feb 15, 20234 min read
Why Testimony Matters
Ahead of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, PM Rishi Sunak praised the courage of Holocaust survivors and announced that parliament will...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Jan 9, 20233 min read
Looking Back To The Future
On 8 January 2003 I carried out the first interview for the then newly founded Refugee Voices Archive. The interviewee was Elena...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Dec 21, 20222 min read
Seasons Greetings from our Director
As we are in the middle of celebrating the Jewish festival of Chanukah and looking forward to 2023, I would like to take this opportunity...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Dec 2, 20222 min read
Holocaust Testimony Conference
Remembering and Rethinking: The International Forum on Collecting, Preserving, and Disseminating Holocaust Testimonies London, Lancaster...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Jul 7, 20223 min read
Family Secrets bring closure
Jackie Young, one of our interviewees, who has spent much of his life trying to find information about his birth parents, left BBC...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Jul 4, 20222 min read
New partnerships, July 2022
We are happy to announce two new partnerships, which will enable the AJR Refugee Voices interviews to be watched and used by wider...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Jun 1, 20222 min read
AJR Refugee Voices & The Queen's Jubilee
Ahead of the Queen’s Jubilee, I am thinking about the importance of the Royal Family for the lives of our interviewees. I remember very...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Apr 13, 20221 min read
Kindertransport Exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Westphalen
On Sunday, 10 April 2022, the Jewish Museum of Westphalen, located in Dorsten, opened a new exhibition on the Kindertransport, entitled...
bealewkowicz
Mar 28, 20222 min read
Fostering Kindertransportees
A few weeks ago, the AJR Refugee Voices website received a query regarding Dr Herbert Edmonds, who came to the UK on a Kindertransport...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Jan 19, 20223 min read
Remembering Together
Remembering Together: AJR Refugee Voices Holocaust Memorial Day Event 2022. On January 18 we held our event for HMD. Kurt Marx, who came...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Dec 27, 20215 min read
2021 Year in Review
Message from Director Dr Bea Lewkowicz As the year 2021 is coming to an end, it is time to look back and think about the future. We have...
AJR Refugee Voices team
Oct 13, 20211 min read
Sharing the Story
This week we looked at the choices our interviewees made about sharing, or not sharing, their stories with their children. We also looked...
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