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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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Sanctuary in the City: Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
Virtual EventFollow in a virtual tour through the City of London discovering public art by first genration refugees and immigrants to Britain.
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Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture
Historian and curator Tessa Murdoch will examine the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of Huguenot refugees
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A Jewish Jesus: Art and Faith in the Shadow of World War II
Virtual EventA groundbreaking one-day conference
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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
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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
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Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead
In this walking tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
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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
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Colour, Texture & Destination
An exhibition celebrating the creative and cultural legacy of Bernat Klein
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Walking Tour: From Streamform to Arts and Crafts
Starting from East this walking tour we walk back in time from 1939 to 1914 looking and the different inter-war architectural styles
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Arthur, Ernestine and Marianne Segal: Painting, Education and Therapy
In this talk, Imogen Wiltshire will discuss Segal’s approach to art making, the mechanisms and networks through which the family established themselves socially and professionally, and the contributions they made to art education and therapeutic care in Britain.
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Walter Segal: Self-Built Architect
John McKean and Alice Grahame, authors of a brand new book about Walter Segal (1907-85), will discuss the life and work of this influential German-born architect, who settled in the UK in 1936.
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Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead
In this walking tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.
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Virtual Tour: Sanctuary in the City: Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
Virtual EventThis is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk.
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Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors
Imperial War Museum IWM London, Lambeth Road, London, United KingdomOver 50 contemporary portraits of Holocaust survivors and their families shine a light on the full lives they have lived and our collective responsibility to cherish their stories.
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On visiting Wittgenstein’s grave with Gustav Metzger
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road, London, United KingdomBronac Ferran addresses negation and its presence in Metzger’s work
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Virtual Tour: A Walk Through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living
Virtual EventThis is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk.
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Passion (1940-45): Representing the Holocaust
Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd Presteigne, LD8 2LL Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd PresteigneThis lecture will set the powerful Colour of the Sky – Auschwitz Paintings by Sidney Nolan on view at The Rodd from 13 August in a broader context
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Sara Davidmann: My Name is Sara
Four Corners Gallery 121 Roman Road, London, United KingdomThe exhibition ‘My name is Sara’ draws upon themes of family, post-memory and the Holocaust.