Archives and other resources
General refugee organisations and resources
- The UN Refugee Agency: https://www.unhcr.org/uk/
- The Refugee Council: https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/
- Legal history and groups of refugees: https://refugeehistory.org/interactive-timelines
1. Herr Professor and other academic refugees
MATERIAL AT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY
- Hinrichsen/Levy Papers (HLP) 22 boxes, uncatalogued. Please contact the archivist kat.hubschmann@sas.ac.uk
MATERIAL IN OTHER ARCHIVES
- Folders of writings and talks by Klaus Hinrichsen as well as research material collected by Hinrichsen and correspondence relating to Kurt Schwitters and other émigré and interned artists, 1920s–2004; Tate Archive: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-20052/folders-of-writings-and-talks-by-klaus-hinrichsen-as-well-as-research-material-collected
- Papers of Klaus Ernst Hinrichsen (internee), Isle of Man Museum: https://imuseum.im/search/collections/archive/mnh-museum-526504.html
- Archive of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, Bodleian Library, Oxford University: https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/3246
- Records of the British Federation of University Women (now the British Federation of Women Graduates) 1832-2010, LSE: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/5BFW
2. Basque refugees from the Spanish civil war
ARCHIVES
- Friends House Library (Quakers in Britain): https://www.quaker.org.uk/resources/library/library-collections
- Southampton University archive: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/resources/basquecollections.page
ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER RESOURCES
- The Association for the UK Basque Children: https://www.basquechildren.org/
- Pathe newsreel from 1937: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nStTreJYOAk
- A short film by the National Archives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zf80IP8x0c
3. Jewish refugees from the Nazis 1938: 'everyone wants to leave'
MATERIAL AT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY
- Margaret Mynatt and Yvonne Kapp Papers https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110019344
- Ernst Philipp Letters https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110068455
MATERIAL AT OTHER ARCHIVES
- Case files from the Central British Fund https://www.worldjewishrelief.org/blog/2017/03/22/making-it-easier-to-find-your-family-history-our-digitised-archives/
- Friends House Library (Quakers in Britain): https://www.quaker.org.uk/resources/library/library-collections
OTHER INSTITUTIONS, ARCHIVES AND RESOURCES
- Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/research-centre-german-austrian-exile-studies-exile
- The Wiener Holocaust Library: https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/
- Leo Baeck Institute: https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk/
- German Historical Institute, London: https://www.ghil.ac.uk/
- Exhibition: Continental Britons – Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe: https://ajr.org.uk/remembrance/resources/
- Exhibition: A bitter road – Britain and the refugee crisis of the 1930s and 1940s: https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/a-bitter-road-britain-and-the-refugee-crisis-of-the-1930s-and-1940s-2/
- The Journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees https://ajr.org.uk/ajr-journal/
4. European refugees: 'we are not all Germans'
MATERIAL AT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY
- Interview with Josephine Bruegel by Alexandra Gruendel, on behalf of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 1995, in German, EXS/1/RCGAES/3/BRU. Please contact the archivist kat.hubschmann@sas.ac.uk
- Typescript spiral-bound document entitled 'Reminiscences / Vzpomínky', written by Josephine Breugel with the assistance of Sylva Simsova and marked 'recorded and edited in London 1998-2001, which is the basis for her published memoirs (Joza, Memories of my Life and Times (London: Kuperon Press, 2002). Please contact the archivist kat.hubschmann@sas.ac.uk
MATERIAL IN OTHER ARCHIVES
- Interview with Josephine Bruegel, IWM , 1996. The recording is available online: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80015912
- Papers of the Czech Refugee Fund Trust, formerly known as British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, The National Archives Kew: https://web.archive.org/web/20231124162412/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9158
OTHER RESOURCES
- Joza Bruegel, Memoirs, published online: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/5304881/joza-bruegel-memoirs-blueyonder-welcome-to-pwp
- Exhibition: Austrian exile theatre: https://exileresearchcentre.omeka.net/exhibits/show/laterndltheatre/
5. Heimweh (homesickness) and community
MATERIAL AT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY
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Ernst Philipp Letters (EPH): https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110068455
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Fritz Gross Papers (EXC/2/GRO): https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110020037
6. The Kerr family
MATERIAL AT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY
- Senate House Library holds published works and correspondence by Alfred Kerr including his diary: Ich kam nach England which was published posthumously in 1979. Access this at Senate House Library
MATERIAL IN OTHER ARCHIVES
- The archive of the Akademie der Künste Berlin has the main collection for Alfred Kerr: Alfred Kerr Archiv
- Sonderfahndungsliste ('The Nazi Black Book'), Wiener Holocaust Library, London, Doc. Ref 1330
OTHER RESOURCES
- Exhibition: The Kerr Family in Flight: https://exhibitions.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/the-kerr-family-in-flight/
- Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria, Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, no. 21, 2021.
- Select clips of the interview are available here https://www.bealewkowiczarchive.com/post/interviewing-judith-kerr
7. Refugee journalists: are refugees an asset?
MATERIAL AT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY
- Robert Lucas Papers https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110050239
- Robert Lucas: Die Briefe des Gefreiten Hirnschal, BBC Radio-Satiren 1940-1945; Wien : Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, 1994.
8. Refugee voices: we all bear witness
MATERIAL AT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY
- Oral history papers and audio recordings for 'Changing Countries' research project (EXC/1/RCGAES/3), Senate House Library https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110049243
MATERIAL IN OTHER ARCHIVES
- Wiener Holocaust Library digital resources including eyewitness accounts collections mentioned on the walk https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-have/digital-resources/
- A portal to most survivor testimony in the UK https://www.holocausttestimony.org.uk/
9. Hungarian refugees from the Soviets: the continued need for asylum
MATERIAL AT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY
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Sennet - University of London Student Union newspaper: Access this at Senate House Library
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Minutes of Convocation meetings, University of London Archive, UoL CN 1/3/8-9
MATERIAL IN OTHER ARCHIVES
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Reports on Hungarian refugees: admission into UK, Feb-Mar 1957. The National Archives.