Norbert Meyn and members of his Ensemble Émigré will pay tribute to German-born composer Robert Kahn, who came to the UK in 1938, at the age of 73, and lived in Biddenden Kent until his death in 1951. It was there that he wrote over 1000 piano pieces
Charlotte Grant will talk about her grandfather Martin Bloch (1883-1954), a German-Jewish artist who came to Britain (via Denmark) as a refugee in 1934.
Jilly Allenby will talk about her fascinating grandfather, the German-born Johannes Ilmari Auerbach
Los Angeles-based writer Meg Waite Clayton will talk about her acclaimed novel Last Train to London, published by HarperCollins.
Follow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first genration refugees and immigrants to Britain.
In conversation with art dealer René Gimpel, whose grandfather owned one of the most important art galleries in pre-war Paris.
Anita Peleg, daughter of sculptor Naomi Blake, will give a talk about her remarkable mother
Olga Levitan, chair of the Israeli Center for the Documentation of the Performing Arts at Tel Aviv University will be joined by Dr. Sean Elan-Gaston, Henry Ripszam’s great-great nephew, Robert Waterhouse, publisher and editor, Baquis Press and Alan Ward, the book’s designer.
A screening of the award-winning documentary Mendelssohn, the Nazis and Me, followed by a discussion and Q&A with its writer and director Sheila Hayman
Tribute will be paid to the stained glass artist Rosalind Grimshaw
As part of the campaign to save George Mayer-Marton’s Crucifixion mural in an abandoned Catholic church in Oldham, Baquis Press is publishing an appraisal of its unique qualities and other works by this Hungarian-born artist
Pioneering journalist Hella Pick, who came to the UK from Austria in 1939, will be in conversation with journalist Anne McElvoy.
A talk about German-born artist Milein Cosman
A conversation about Berlin-born photographer Tom Blau and his agency Camera Press
Follow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first genration refugees and immigrants to Britain.
Radio programme, Resonance FM
In this virtual, scenic walk through Highgate, we discover its history and important architectural experiments in urban living
Marking the centenary of the birth of Czech-born sculptor Franta Belsky
In this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
A talk focussing on the often overlooked temporary camps on the British mainland which most of the so-called ‘enemy aliens’ passed through.
Follow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first genration refugees and immigrants to Britain.
Celia Frank will talk about the life and work of her father, Julius Frank (1897-1985), a Jewish German textile and wallpaper designer and artist
When novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer Stefan Zweig arrived in London in 1934, exiled from his native Vienna by the rising tide of Nazism, he was at the height of his literary career.
Two writers, Edmund de Waal and Tom Stoppard, will discuss the themes and concerns they share in Leopoldstadt and The Hare with Amber Eyes