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World Jewish Relief was established as the Central British Fund for German Jewry in 1933 to help refugees from Nazi-Europe, and we succeeded in bringing around 65,000 Jewish refugees to safety.
A Family History Unfolded
Last summer, 82 years after my maternal grandparents fled Vienna and arrived as young refugees in London, six members of my extended family and I were granted Austrian citizenship. Without the help of World Jewish Relief our task would have been immeasurably harder.
Speeches from Parliament that led to the Kindertransport
Read the speeches from Parliament that led to the Kindertransport
On 21 November 1938 debates were held in Parliament to discuss whether Britain would be prepared to accept more Jewish refugees from Germany, including unaccompanied children.
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Theatre star peels back a layer of family history
The theatre star gave an impromptu performance at the World Jewish Relief Archive Roadshow at JW3 on Sunday 25 September, interspersing the music with reflections on how the characters in her stage show came alive when she saw their names on the documents.
Responding to the present by remembering the past
World Jewish Relief has recently worked with several PhD researchers and Professor Bill Niven to create a new travelling exhibition about the work of our founders (the Central British Fund) and how World Jewish Relief today is using memory of the Holocaust, especially memory of the Kindertransports, when responding to new crises.
‘We Cannot Walk Alone’: Refugee Week 2021
For Refugee Week 2021 we are celebrating the incredible resilience, achievements and contributions of a few of the 1,000+ refugees World Jewish Relief has supported on their journeys into work. This year the theme of Refugee Week is 'We Cannot Walk Alone'. At the heart of our Specialist Training and Employment Programme (STEP) for refugees are our partnerships with NGOs, local and national authorities, who help deliver the programme.
Felicien, Rwanda
World Jewish Relief began work in Eastern Rwanda in 2000 in recognition of the shared history of genocide between the Jewish community and the Rwandan people. Guided by the Jewish notion of Tikkun Olam, healing the world, World Jewish Relief reaches beyond its community at times of major disaster and in contexts that resonate with our own Jewish experience of genocide.
There is an incredibly emotive and tragic shared history of persecution between the Jewish community and the Rwandan people. Just like the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe, Tutsi people experienced pogroms and discrimination at work, in educational institutions and on the streets.
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