Screening of film about former refugee/internee Ruth Borchard and her magnificent collection of self-portraits by British-based artists.
Sonia will discuss the influence on her own writing of some of the accounts written by Jewish refugees interned by the British in 1940
This talk and discussion will focus on Bilbo as an émigré artist and on some of the many facets of his extraordinary life and career.
Jacquie Richardson will then be in conversation Simon Parkin, about the key role Hinrichsen played in the rich intellectual and artistic life of Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man
Exploring the contribution of Jewish refugees to British textiles, fashion and design - with Anna Nyburg
Ines Newman and Rachel Dickson will discuss the friendship formed in Huyton Camp, near Liverpool, between Ines’ grandfather, engineer Wilhelm Hollitscher and artist Hugo Dachinger
Norbert Meyn and Michael Holden introduce the remarkably rich musical life of the British internment camps, and perform some of the works created there. Joined by Eva Fox-Gál, daughter of composer Hans Gál, whose internment diary was published under the title Music behind Barbed Wire.
Dr Jennifer Langer in conversation with fellow poet Dr Aviva Dautch about her debut poetry collection The Search & about Exiled Writers Ink
Starting in late October, Jewish Renaissance and Lyons Learning Project in association with Insiders/Outsiders are hosting a series of online events exploring the hugely significant and often surprising ways in which Jews – many of them former refugees from Nazism interned by the British in 1940 – contributed to the Allied war effort.
