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01/03/2018
Tea for honours recipients at Holocaust Survivors Centre
Recipients of New Year’s Honours for their services to Holocaust education and awareness were invited to tea at Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre in Hendon. Together with their relatives, members, volunteers and staff at the Centre, those honoured who could attend, were joined by Matthew Offord MP for Hendon. Members of the Order of the British Empire were awarded to Reverend Bernd Koschland MBE, Hannah Lewis MBE, Andrew Kaufman MBE, Joan Salter MBE and Martin Stern MBE. Medalists of the Order of the British Empire, BEM’s were given to Harry Bibring BEM, Leslie Kleinman BEM, Dr Chaim (Harry) Olmer BEM, Josef Perl BEM, Harry Spiro BEM, Janine Webber BEM, and Freda Wineman BEM. AJR Chair Andrew Kaufman said "I am delighted to have been given this award which I have accepted on behalf of everyone at AJR: our members, staff and volunteers. My late parents, both refugees from Germany, would...
28/02/2018
Alex Maws Joins AJR
AJR are delighted to announce the appointment of Alex Maws as Head of Educational Grants and Projects. Alex has been working with AJR on an advisory basis since last year and, as we boost our commitment to advancing opportunities for future generations to study and learn about the Holocaust, we are pleased that he has now joined the organisation as a permanent member of staff. A prominent supporter of Holocaust education and commemoration, the AJR is the largest benefactor of Holocaust educational programmes and projects in the UK. The AJR also strongly supports many national events such as Yom HaShoah and the Jewish Film Festival as well as several Synagogue Holocaust Memorial Day programmes. Similarly we educate about our members’ own experiences and their contribution to Britain through various projects and initiatives, including Refugee Voices, our ground-breaking audio-visual testimony archive of over 200 filmed interviews. Chief Executive Michael Newman said...
04/12/2017
The Heart of AJR
This is the first promotional film made for AJR, featuring some of our members, staff and volunteers - the heart of AJR.
20/11/2017
Wrap Up London
The Association of Jewish Refugees along with World Jewish Relief are delighted to support the Wrap up London 2017 campaign by allowing the placing of bright red coats on the iconic Kindertransport statue at Liverpool Street Station, to help encourage Londoners to donate their old coats to those in need. The Kindertransport statue was chosen by the charity Hands on London as a hero image for the launch of the Wrap up London 2017 campaign, to help symbolize the number of coats Wrap Up London donates to refugees each winter. The Chairman of the AJR-Kindertransport committee Sir Erich Reich said “This campaign helps to signify how the underprivileged refugees and unaccompanied children need help today, just as they did in 1938 and 1939.” In 2016, nearly 23,000 coats were donated, but in the seventh year of the annual collection the number of people living in crisis in London is sadly...
14/11/2017
AJR Volunteer Celebration
The Association of Jewish Refugees invited a cross-section of its 300 plus volunteers to a reception at the House of Commons on Monday 13th November 2017, in celebration and recognition of their selfless work. AJR Head of Volunteer Services Carol Hart said “Although we were not able to invite all of the wonderful people who offer their time to our members due to the size of the room but we made sure that all of our projects, such as Befriending and Computer Help, were represented. It was a wonderful evening.” The reception was due to be hosted by Tulip Siddiq MP but she was called away at the last minute on Parliamentary business. Ms Siddiq was replaced by John Mann MP who, as Chair of the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism since 2005, and Chair of the International Coalition Against Antisemitism, was warmly received by the attendees. AJR Chairman Andrew Kaufman...