26 August Walk

2. Souvenir booklet

Academics were some of the first refugees from the Nazi regime

3. Basque refugees 1937

Following the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War images of Basque children appeared in the UK press

4. Mecklenburg Square, 1939

Czech refugees were supported at the Czech Refugee Trust Fund at Mecklenburg Square, and the University's Canterbury Hall was given to the Trust to house about 300 of the refugees

6. Austrian Flier

The Mary Ward Settlement House provided space for the Austrian community to meet and discuss pressing questions around the future of Austria

7. Kerr Family

The Kerrs lived at the hotel 'Foyer Suisse' near Russell Square

9. Staff of the Wiener Library

In the 1950s the Wiener Library created its own collection of eyewitness accounts of refugees from the Nazis

10. Fundraising for Hungarian Appeal, 1956

After the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution by the Soviet regime, members of the University of London welcomed Hungarian student refugees