AJR Second Generation Survey
Calling all Second Generation. Tell us what you would like from The AJR!
Over one-third of AJR’s membership identifies as second generation of survivors and refugees from Nazi-persecution. Now we are looking to develop specific services and areas of interest to appeal to both existing Second Generation (2G) members and also to attract new members.
Please fill in our survey (whether you are currently a member of AJR or not) to help us provide what you would like. We promise it will only take five minutes of your time!
You can access the survey here. Please pass the message on to other Second Generation friends and family members in the UK.
Here are some of the ideas we would like to ask you about. Which of them appeal to you?
- Social activities (with other Second Generation) such as coffee mornings, card and games evenings, outings etc.
- Cultural activities to celebrate our parents’ heritage such as concerts, trips to the opera and art galleries or our own art exhibition etc.
- Trips to our parents’ places of birth
- Information on how to arrange for a Stolperstein for family members
- Workshops and help with writing our parents’ life stories and printing in a book
- Advice on how to become a speaker, telling our parents’ stories
- Adding our parents’ names to a virtual hall of remembrance (on the AJR website)
- Adding our parents’ names to a physical hall of remembrance at an appropriate venue
- Purchasing a legacy pack to provide AJR membership for our own children to ensure the continuation of our parents’ heritage
- Attending seminars of interest to Second Generation e.g. historical talks, psychological impact, etc
- Volunteer opportunities working with First Generation AJR members e.g. befriending
- Obtaining emotional and therapeutic support
- Obtaining financial support
- Guidance on how to apply for an EU passport
- Advice on what to do with our parents’ documents, photographs and historical artefacts
- Guidance on how to carry out genealogical research