This free online event will follow a screening of the documentary film, Complicit, and will include the creator and producer of the documentary, Robert Krakow, Esq., as well as former child refugee passengers on the MS St Louis.
The Wiener Holocaust Library and Waging Peace This Refugee Week, The Wiener Holocaust Library remembers its refugee origins and insists that all refugees must be treated with dignity and respect. […]
Join our expert panel for a discussion on ‘What does it mean to welcome refugees?’, to mark Refugee Week 2022, which this year looks at the theme of ‘healing’.
In this online event, Becky Taylor will draw from her recent book, ‘Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain. A History’, to explore the enormous efforts made by voluntary organisations to bring refugees from Nazism to Britain.
Due to the planned rail strike, this will now be an online only event. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Applications are open to attend the HGRP’s one-day virtual symposium that will examine themes related to the challenges of transnational digital curation and the sustainability of digital humanities resources.
In this event, Simon Parkin will speak about his new book which uses exclusive new archival material, letters and diaries to reveal the untold story of history’s most extraordinary prison camp, where Britain interned thousands of refugees during the Second World War.
In this exhibition talk, Professor Clare Ungerson will discuss how it came about that 4,000 German Jewish refugee men moved from Greater Germany to live in an old army camp on the edge of the small town of Sandwich in East Kent in 1939.
Join us for a talk and reception to mark the launch of the ‘Leave to Land’ exhibition at the Library. Antony Lishak will explore the significance of this remarkable act of humanitarianism.
