A New Life for Inherited Objects: The Art of Evy Cohen
A talk by a descendent of the Haimaki Cohen family sheltered during World War Two by Princess Alice, mother of the late Prince Philip
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Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
In this scenic walk through Highgate, we discover its history and important architectural experiments in urban living
£9.00 – £12.00
The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
David Herman will lead a discussion with Eva Hoffman, Philip Boehm and Adam Freudenheim about this powerful and prescient novel
Free
Alice Schwab: One Woman’s Emigration from Heilbronn to England
Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE will be in conversation with Joachim Schloer about her redoubtable mother Alice (Liesel) Schwab
Bertha Bracey and the Quaker Rescuers
From the rise of Hitler in 1933 to post-Holocaust Europe, the Quakers played a huge role in saving Jewish lives.
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hitlist
Historian Sybil Oldfield will be in conversation with writer and journalist Caroline Moorehead about fascinating new publication.
Torn Threads: Aspects of the Life and Work of Textile Designer Otti Berger
Artist Judith Raum will be joined by design historian Tanya Harrod to evoke the life & work of Yugoslav-Jewish textile designer Otti Berger (1898-1944)
Music and the Émigré Photographers: Companions in Creativity
A rich array of musical images by émigré photographers will evoke the deeply cultured milieu in which so many refugees from Nazism lived.
Leonhard Adam: ‘Dunera Boy’, Lawyer, Anthropologist and Artist
Mary-Clare Adam, Leonard’s daughter, will highlight the dramatic events in his life on two continents before and after the two World Wars
Hope after catastrophe: The Art of Dante Elsner
The talk will be given by Dante’s granddaughter, Maia Elsner whose poetry explores the nature of intergenerational memory
Sanctuary in the City: Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
Virtual Event
Follow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first genration refugees and immigrants to Britain.
£6.00 – £12.00
Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture
Historian and curator Tessa Murdoch will examine the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of Huguenot refugees
A Jewish Jesus: Art and Faith in the Shadow of World War II
Virtual Event
A groundbreaking one-day conference
Becoming Gustav Metzger, Uncovering the Early Years 1945-59
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road, London, United KingdomThis is the first museum exhibition to examine the little-known formative years of refugee artist and activist Gustav Metzger
Free
Avram Stencl: The Yiddish Poet of Whitechapel
This illustrated talk by Rachel Lichtenstein examines the life and work of London’s foremost Yiddish poet Avram Nachum Stencl
Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead
In this walking tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
£9.00 – £12.00
Virtual Tour: From Streamform to Arts and Crafts
This virtual walk goes back historically in time, looking at architectural styles 1914-1939 on the North side of Hampstead Garden Suburb
£9.00 – £12.00
Colour, Texture & Destination
An exhibition celebrating the creative and cultural legacy of Bernat Klein
Free