The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade
Exploring the contribution of Jewish refugees to British textiles, fashion and design – with Anna Nyburg
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this scenic walk through Highgate, we discover its history and important architectural experiments in urban living
This virtual walk goes back historically in time, looking at architectural styles 1914-1939 on the North side of Hampstead Garden Suburb
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.
This online conference brings together expertise in the field from the UK, Europe and Israel, and presentations deal with diverse aspects of childhood amongst the refugees from Nazism, including education, therapy, literature, art, photography, and play.
In this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
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.
A talk by art historian Simon Lake about the rich and tumultuous life of émigré painter Ernst Neuschul.
Starting from East this walking tour we walk back in time from 1939 to 1914 looking and the different inter-war architectural styles
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.
An event paying tribute to Kurt Jooss, the pioneering German-born modernist dancer, teacher and choreographer in the UK between 1934 -1949
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.
Some 80,000 refugees from Nazism who made their way to safety in Britain were, inevitably, engineers.
A panel discussion to mark a new edition of Anna Seghers’ remarkable 1944 novel Transit, recently published by Virago Modern Classics
Karen Hopper will give a talk about her remarkable German-born artist grandparents.
Sculptor, art educator & Holocaust survivor Maurice Blik talking about his new book, Maurice Blik, The Art of Survival – An Artobiography
Prof John J Heartfield, grandson of John Heartfield and curator of The John Heartfield Exhibition in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen