Jul 29, 20233 minThe SurvivorsEarlier this year, on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, I gave a lecture on the experiences of four Jewish Slovak survivors from the AJR...
Jul 7, 20232 minWelcome to Project PapulkaIn May 2020 my mother, Dr Gertrud Friedmann, died. Born in Slovakia, she survived the Holocaust in hiding with her family. You can read a...
Jun 15, 20233 minHappy Birthday Judith KerrJune 14, 2023, would have been Judith’s Kerr 100th birthday. I am so grateful that I was able to interview Judith in 2001 and that I...
Mar 13, 20235 minOn the 85th anniversary of the 'Anschluss' Shortly after Elly Miller’s 10th birthday in March 1938, the ‘Anschluss’, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, took place. The...
Jan 30, 20232 minHolocaust Memorial Day 2023In the week of HMD 2023 I was privileged to have been able to share the stories of four Slovak Jewish Survivors (Gerta Vrbova, Sara...
Sep 14, 20221 minÉmigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and AustriaI am delighted that twelve of the interviews I conducted 20 years ago for a film installation in the Continental Britons exhibition at...
Sep 29, 20213 minInterviewing Judith KerrOn the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and the publication of a commemorative...
Sep 29, 20212 minWelcome to my new website! I'm a Social Anthropologist and Oral Historian who's worked on many oral history projects, curated a wide range of exhibitions and made...