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AJR HMD Commemoration
Our Annual HMD Service will be held in conjunction with Belsize Square Synagogue via Zoom. The theme for 2021 is ‘Be the light in the darkness’. Bart van Es, author of the Costa Book of the Year...
AJR Refugee Voices HMD Event: Voices For A Better World
Online launch of AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive's new film VOICES FOR A BETTER WORLD, followed by a panel discussion. Please join us for the online launch of our new film VOICES FOR A BETTER...
UK Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony
The UK Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 ceremony will be streamed online at 7pm. This will be our first fully digital ceremony. The ceremony will run from 7–8pm. At 8pm, get ready to Light the...
Kindertransport: Remembering & Rethinking Podcast
This week, the Hollywood press announced that Sir Anthony Hopkins is set to bring the story of the Kindertransport to a mass global audience when he stars in a forthcoming biopic about Sir Nicholas...
Exhibition "Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust" opens at the Wiener Holocaust Library
The Wiener Holocaust Library, after being closed for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will open again this week with new health and safety measures, as well as a new exhibition, Jewish Resistance...
Symposium 'Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust in the UK' is available online
The three-part symposium "Teaching & Learning About the Holocaust in the UK" is now available to watch online. Sponsored by the AJR, in partnership with the UK Delegation to the International...
AJR unveils commemorative plaque at the British Embassy in Berlin
The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) unveiled a commemorative plaque at the British Embassy in Berlin on Tuesday 12 May, 2020 in dedication and memory of consular officials whose devoted efforts...
Chelsea Football Club adopts working definition of antisemitism
Chelsea FC have announced that the club will officially adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, becoming the first sports team in the world to...
AJR unveils blue plaque in honor of Otto M. Schiff
Otto M. Schiff C.B.E., the founder, chair and director of the Jewish Refugees Committee (JRC), was honored yesterday when a blue plaque was unveiled at Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London. Woburn...
Blue plaque unveiled in London in honor of Milein Cosman and Hans Keller
“This plaque commemorates the lives of two remarkable Jewish refugees who lived here. They both contributed not only to the local community but to the very fabric of British society,” said Frank...