'No Life Without You', a collection of letters & journals of Ernst & Vera Felsenstein as they fled Nazi Germany is out today. I wrote the introduction & the book can be downloaded in full from here: openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647…
Research Centre German & Austrian Exile Parkes Institute British & Irish Association for Holocaust Studies AJR Refugee Voices Archive

#OnThisDay in 1933 the Nazis organised a boycott of Jewish shops and offices. The SA stood outside Jewish-owned properties to intimidate customers

Find out more about their antisemitic policies and how they impacted Jewish communities in Germany bit.ly/2SLGisW

Talk on #Kindertransport What really happened in Aberystwyth on 24 January at 7pm. All welcome, please book! waterstones.com/events/author-…

After witnessing Kristallnacht, Hedi Pope prepared to flee Nazi Vienna. Imprisoned in Dachau, her father encouraged her and her sister to emigrate without him. Hedi and her sister arrived in the US in 1939. Their father didn’t survive. She died recently at 103 in North Carolina.

The KTA mourns the death of Carl Davis. A brilliant film composer (including The French Lieutenant's Woman, directed by Kind Karel Reisz, also he wrote 'Last Train to Tomorrow' a Kindertransport piece the KTA The New School & Mannes premiered in NYC in 2019.

Excited to receive hard copies of Dr Gilly Carr 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 & my new edited collection! The book is crammed full of amazing new scholarship on #WW2 #internment #history in the UK, Europe & beyond. Order one for your library! Thanks to Bloomsbury History for production bloomsbury.com/uk/british-int…

OTD in 2015, #SirNicholasWinton passed away, aged 106.
He saved the lives of 699 Jewish children from the Nazi regime. In 2016 he featured in a set of Royal Mail stamps, honouring UK's greatest humanitarians & their achievements.
Today we remember his live & legacy.

Choral conductor and composer Peter Erwin Lendvai was born #OTD in 1882. In 1933 he went into exile; first to Saarland, then Switzerland. In 1938, via Eastern Europe and Sweden, he escaped to England, where he worked as a music teacher in Norwich.
musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_L/Len…

Listen to Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP/CASP) Directorand Research Centre German & Austrian Exile member Andrea Hammel speaking about her book Finding Refuge

Polish/French composer Alexandre Tansman was born #OTD in 1897. After the German occupation of France in 1940 he fled south and managed in 1941 to escape via Lisbon to Los Angeles, thanks to the efforts of his friend Charlie Chaplin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre…

Event! ⏰
Fact and Fiction: Irish Writers’ Kindertransport Narratives for Child Readers 🚂👜
Speaker: Áine McGillicuddy (Dublin City University)

Wednesday, 12 April, 6pm
Venue: Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU

Book now! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/fact-an…

Event! ⏰
Fact and Fiction: Irish Writers’ Kindertransport Narratives for Child Readers 🚂👜
Speaker: Áine McGillicuddy (Dublin City University)

Wednesday, 12 April, 6pm
Venue: Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU

Book now! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/fact-an…

The Contribution of Andreas Mytze – Bookseller, Publisher and Publicist –
to Exile Literature and Exile Studies in Great Britain 📚🖊️
Speaker: Jennifer Taylor

Wed. 8 March, 6pm. Book now!⬇️
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/contrib…

Event! ⏰
Fact and Fiction: Irish Writers’ Kindertransport Narratives for Child Readers 🚂👜
Speaker: Áine McGillicuddy (Dublin City University)

Wednesday, 12 April, 6pm
Venue: Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU

Book now! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/fact-an…

The Contribution of Andreas Mytze – Bookseller, Publisher and Publicist –
to Exile Literature and Exile Studies in Great Britain 📚🖊️
Speaker: Jennifer Taylor

Wed. 8 March, 6pm. Book now!⬇️
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/contrib…

We are delighted to welcome Ernie Hunter, chair of NHEG and son of two German refugees, to speak as part of #HMD2023 . Ernie will be talking about his mother, Fanny Höchstetter, as part of the theme 'Ordinary People' on 26 January from 1-2pm in C22 of the Hugh Owen Building