Émigré Voices
The Émigré Voices collection consists of all my interviews with Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria conducted between 2000 and 2002. The first 17 audio interviews were carried out for a research project on Belsize Square Synagogue, which was founded by German Jews in 1939. The second group of 20 video interviews were filmed for a film installation in the Continental Britons exhibition at the Jewish Museum.
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For the Belsize Square project, I interviewed 17 women and men, among them 15 former refugees, a member of the second generation, the writer and performer Robin Hirsch, who grew up in the Belsize Square synagogue and the then rabbi, Rabbi Rodney Mariner:
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Paul Alexander
Norbert Cohn
Miriam Cohn
Heddy Friedmann
Robin Hirsch
Henry Kuttner
Ben Lachman
Steffi Lachman
Herbert Levy
Lilian Levy
David Maier
Estelle Maier
Hanni Lichtenstern
Charles Strauss
Irene White
Robin Hirsch
Rabbi Rodney Mariner
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For the Continental Britons film installation, I carried out 20 video interviews, not all of them were shown in the final film. They interviewees were chosen because they were either prominent public figures, such as Judith Kerr or Norbert Brainin or they had an interesting connection to the German/Austrian refugee history in London, such as Doris Balacs who owned the Dorice restaurant on Finchley Road, an important meeting place for many, or Theo Marx and Ludwig Spiro who were closely involved with the Association of Jewish Refugees. The first twelve interviews have been published in Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria (Brill 2021).
Doris Balacs
Norbert Brainin
Anton Walter Freud
Richard Grunberger
Daisy Hoffner
Lucie Kaye (Schachne)
Judith Kerr
Elly Miller
Claus Moser (Baron Moser)
Andrew Sachs
Hans Seelig
Wolfgang Suschitzky
Ken Ambrose
Michael Rosenstock
Josephine Bruegel
Edith Rothschild
Theo Marx
Ludwig Spiro
Ruth Barnett
Hilde Kochmann