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In this talk Dr Bea Lewkowicz will reflect on the history and representation of the Kindertransport and present the voices of the Kindertransport Refugees, some of whom settled in Belsize Park, from the AJR Refugees Voices Archive, which has captured more than 80 Kinder interviews in the last 20 years. This presentation will explore the experiences of the women and men who came to Britain in 1938/1939 as unaccompanied children and will focus on some of the struggles they faced.  

Dr Bea Lewkowicz is the director and co-founder of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive which she created for the Association of Jewish Refugees. She is also the co-founder and director of Sephardi Voices UK, an oral history archive which focused on the stories of Jews from the Middle east, North Africa, and Iran.  From the beginning of her career she focused on capturing the stories of Holocaust survivors and refugees trying to ensure that these stories will be saved for future generations and disseminated to broader audiences. She has conducted more than 200 interviews with British Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazism and passionately believes in the power of testimonies.  Bea has curated several exhibitions, such as ‘Continental Britons’, ‘Double Exposure’, ‘Sephardi Voices’, ‘Still in Our Hands: Kinder Life Portraits’. She was the academic advisor for the exhibition ‘I said Auf Wiedersehen’, displayed at the German Bundestag in January and February 2024.  Among her publications are ‘The Jewish Community of Salonika: History, Memory, and Identity (2006), ‘This is the Story of my Life’: An Interview with Julius Carlebach’ (2020), and Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria (2022).

For more information, please visit: bealewkowiczarchive.com.