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Hybrid Lunchtime Talk: Anna Nyburg, The Clothes on Our Backs: How refugees from Nazism revitalised the British fashion trade
Hybrid Lunchtime Talk: Anna Nyburg, The Clothes on Our Backs: How refugees from Nazism revitalised the British fashion trade
Jews had long been active in the clothing trade in Europe, developing new production and retail methods and excelling as designers. However, in the UK clothes production was mostly conservative and design was not a concept. What happened to these Jews in the clothing industry after the Nazis came to power in 1933, bent on ridding Germany of Jews? Many found asylum in Britain, where soon the refugee owners of Kangol and other firms were employing thousands of British workers at a time of dreadfully high unemployment.
