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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Refugees from Nazism in Britain
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised for Refugee Week 2024. \nIn Europe in the 1930s and 1940s\, economic and political breakdown and the rise of extremist politics turned citizens into refugees. From 1933 onwards\, Jews fled Nazi persecution in Germany and later Austria\, Czechoslovakia and Poland. By 1946\, war\, genocide and forced population movements had created millions of refugees. \nAround 80\,000 Jewish refugees arrived to the UK between 1933 and 1945. Aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, this talk will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to trace some of the journeys made by these 80\,000 refugees\, focusing on ‘ordinary’ people. It will also explore British responses to these refugees\, including governmental actions and the activities of community and voluntary organisations. \nThis session is suitable for those studying the following: \nKS3 & KS4 History: \n\nAQA: Germany\, 1890 – 1945: Democracy and Dictatorship\nEdexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany\, 1918 – 1939\nOCR (History A): Germany\, 1925-1955: The People and The State\nOCR (History B): Living under Nazi Rule\, 1933 – 1945\n\nKS5 History: \n\nAQA: Democracy and Nazism: Germany\, 1918 – 1945\nEdexcel: Germany and West Germany\, 1918 – 1989\nOCR: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919 – 1963\n\nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-refugees-from-nazism-in-britain/
CATEGORIES:Education,Refugees
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2024: Refugee policy from the Kindertransport to the present day\, with René Cassin
DESCRIPTION:An event to mark Refugee Week 2024 with René Cassin. \nWhy has the Home Office exacerbated the use of dangerous routes\, such as small boats to cross the English channel\, when the UK society has a history of welcoming refugees via safe routes via the Kindertransport?  \nThese boats used are often overcrowded and the people on board are at risk of capsizing\, hypothermia\, and collisions with larger vessels. Refugees and asylum seekers have little choice but to make these journeys. There is no evidence to support the government’s claim that their harsh treatment of refugees and asylum seekers serves as a deterrent for people seeking refuge and asylum to make the journey to the UK. Even if it were true\, we see no moral\, legal\, or economic reason to deter refugees in the first place.  \nThere is particular alarm about the government’s dismissive response to the Home Affairs Committee’s recommendation for establishing safe routes. Between November 1938 and September 1939\, the UK’s Kindertransport Scheme helped 10\,000 Jewish children travel to Britain and escape the Holocaust. A voluntary scheme led by organisations including the Central British Fund for German Jewry (now known as World Jewish Relief) welcomed fleeing children and oversaw their welfare\, ensuring them a safe home in the UK.  \nThe government has repeatedly spoken of the illegal ways refugees and asylum seekers enter the UK\, without providing safe and legal routes for them after their often dangerous fleeing from persecution. This hostile environment undermines the Refugee Convention and Universal Declaration of Human Rights\, set out in response to Jewish experience in the Holocaust. The government has failed to learn from history\, and it is imperative that we remind it of its lessons.  \nThis panel\, hosted by René Cassin\, will take us from the Kindertransport to the present day\, exploring how and why vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers risk their lives to make the UK their home and what we can do about the implementation of safe and legal routes. \n About the speakers:\nEnver Solomon is Chief Executive Officer at Refugee Council. Before joining the Refugee Council\, he held senior management posts at the National Children’s Bureau\, the Children’s Society and Barnardos. He has also sat on advisory boards at the Department for Education\, HM Inspector of Prisons and the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. His Chairmanship roles have included the Standing Committee for Youth Justice\, End Child Poverty Campaign and the trustee board of Asylum Aid. \nDebora Singer has been working part-time at René Cassin since July 2019. As Safeguarding Human Rights Lead her focus is on protecting and promoting the human rights framework in the UK. Debora’s background is in policy and campaigning for the rights of women seeking asylum at Asylum Aid and for survivors of sexual and domestic violence whilst at Victim Support. Debora’s family were refugees from Nazi Germany and this underlies her passion for human rights. In 2012 she was awarded an MBE for services to women. \nZoe Gardner is an independent migration and asylum policy specialist\, researcher\, advocate\, and writer. Before working independently\, Zoe has a long history of working for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles in Brussels\, Asylum Aid\,  the Race Equality Foundation\, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and the European Network on Statelessness. She was on the board of Trustee Medical Information for Ethnic Minorities (MIEM) and Tell MAMA\, and the steering committee of Movement Against Xenophobia.  
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/refugee-week-2024-refugee-policy-from-the-kindertransport-to-the-present-day-with-rene-cassin/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Refugees
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SUMMARY:Safe Haven - the Leslie Brent story: Travelling Exhibition and Talk
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Brent \nChild refugees at Dovercourt Holiday Camp \nIn September 2022 a statue was unveiled at Harwich quayside of 5 figures of refugee children to represent the journey to England and the first taste of freedom of nearly 10\,000 Kindertransportees from Europe rescued from Nazi tyranny. \nThe Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust (HKMLT) raised the funding  and commissioned this statue to realise the aim of celebrating the role of Harwich and also nearby Dovercourt in the new and free lives of so many Jewish child refugees. \nThe mobile exhibition Safe Haven – the Leslie Brent story gives some context to the new memorial by describing Leslie’s journey from Berlin to England\, his brief stay in the Dovercourt holiday camp\, and his life from childhood in a new and strange place to his adult career as a distinguished immunologist. \nThis exhibition will be on show on Thursday 20th June at the Wiener Library from 10.00am – 5pm followed by a talk by Mike Levy\, Holocaust educator and author\, based on his extensive research about the importance of Dovercourt in acting as the first safe haven for many kindertransportees. \nThe exhibition will be open to the public all day\, with no need to register\, but attendees for the evening talk can sign up to attend below. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/safe-haven-the-leslie-brent-story-travelling-exhibition-and-talk/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Refugees
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