Abstract
Refugee Voices is a groundbreaking Holocaust testimony collection of 150 filmed interviews with Jewish survivors and refugees from Nazism who rebuilt their lives in Great Britain. It was commissioned by the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), with Dr Anthony Grenville and Dr Bea Lewkowicz directing the project.
The archive is available at the Malach Centre since February 2013. The collection consists of more than 450 hours of film and forms an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, educationalists and others with a professional interest in the field of refugee, migration and Holocaust studies.
The collection has been designed precisely with the requirements of scholars and other professionals in mind. All interviews have been fully transcribed and catalogued enabling a researcher to be able to see an interview and then to read a transcript of the words spoken in it, or vice versa.
For ease of reference, both the films and the transcripts are time-coded, making it possible to locate specific passages with a minimum of effort. Accompanying the collection is a comprehensive database, containing an index of the interviews and details of the interviewees and their life stories.
The interviews have been catalogued with 44 separate categories.