Holocaust Testimony UK is a UK-based oral history and education initiative by the Association of Jewish Refugees and the UK government that brings together thousands of recorded interviews with Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazism. Working in partnership with leading testimony archives, including the USC Shoah Foundation, the British Library, the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, the Wiener Holocaust Library, and the AJR Refugee Voices Archive.  It serves as a central digital hub that makes larger and smaller testimony collections accessible in one digital space.   

The AJR Refugee Voices Archive is a major oral history collection documenting the life stories of Jewish survivors and refugees who fled Nazi persecution and rebuilt their lives in Britain. Recorded under the auspices of the Association of Jewish Refugees, the archive preserves in-depth testimony that traces experiences of pre-war life, flight, exile, survival, and post-war resettlement.  The interviews range from two to eight hours and the archive also contains a rich collection of photographs and documents. 

Sephardi Voices UK is an oral history and education initiative dedicated to recording, preserving, and sharing the life stories of Jews from Sephardi and Mizrahi backgrounds. The project focuses particularly on interviewees displaced from the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran, who settled in Britain. Through in-depth filmed and audio interviews, Sephardi Voices UK documents memories of pre-migration life, experiences of expulsion and displacement, and processes of rebuilding lives in new contexts. .

 I have started to interview and photograph 2nd and 3rd generations for the AJR Refugee Testimony Archive and other projects. You can watch some of these interviews here.  The interviews explore and illustrate the lasting legacy of Nazi persecution beyond the immediate victims and well beyond the Second World War.

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.

The Jewish Voices from Salonika collection conssist of interviews with Jews from Salonika, collected betwenn 1989 and 1994. The interviews formed the basis of my PhD and book and  I hope to make some available on this site.   

Project Papulka is a personal and historical exploration inspired by the discovery of a previously unknown memoir written in 1994 by my mother, Holocaust survivor Dr Gertrud Friedmann. Found after her death, the manuscript reveals childhood memories and wartime experiences in Slovakia that I did not know about. The project traces my journey to the places she described and reflects on testimony, memory, and belonging.   Named after my mother’s childhood nickname, Papulka (“our little chatterbox”), the project honours her voice, agency, and life beyond the Holocaust. I am excited to be working with Lemonsole to publish my mother's memoir in 2026. 

 80 Objects/80 Lives is a digital exhibition featuring 80 objects from filmed testimonies of British Holocaust survivors and refugees, presented as 80 individual Social Media posts. It is a project of the UK presidency of the International Holocaust and Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and was developed in partnership with the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) and the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation..