Supported by funding from Arts Council England, the Library’s Refugee Map visually traces refugee journeys with documents from our collections, including handwritten diaries, photograph albums, identity and emigration papers, Red Cross letters and taped interviews.
These documents on this digital resource reveal and preserve the stories of the individuals and families that fled Nazi antisemitism and persecution in the years before, during and after the Second World War.
The Library will continue to add donated collections to the map. To find out more about donating family papers to the Library, click here.
Related news
Picturing Refugee Families, Helen Lewandowski, 3 September 2020.
Refugee Stories: The Library is launching an innovative digital resource, Helen Lewandowski, 3 November 2021.
Press coverage
We have been delighted to receive the following press coverage for this new resource:
- Londonist – Inside the anti-fascist Library that’s been fighting Nazism since WW2 (24.11.21)
- EHRI – Refugee Stories (29.11.21)
- BBC News London – Stories of refugees who fled Nazis revealed in online map (4.12.21)
- Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine – Online map tells refugees’ WW2 stories (January 2022)
- BBC History Revealed – New map charts journeys of refugees how escaped Nazis (February 2022)
- Jewish News – New refugee journeys map helps to ‘reconnect scattered pasts’ (21.02.22)
