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A visit to the former Reichenbach-Sportschule concentration camp   As the 8th of May 2025 was approaching, an idea started forming in my head. I wanted to be at the very place where my father, Josef Lewkowicz, had been liberated 80 years earlier. It was the beginning of a new life for him after more than two years incarcerated in six concentration camps, he had just turned 17. With a photo of my father, aged 17/18, outside the former site of the Reichenbach-Sportschule camp A

Earlier this year, on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, I gave a lecture on the experiences of four Jewish Slovak survivors from the AJR Refugee Voices Archive, one of them my mother. This was the first time I publicly spoke about her history. A few days before the event I received an e-mail from Vivian Hassan- Lampert, saying that her mother Erika Hassan, who had survived the war in my mother's hometown Piestany, would like to get in touch with Dr Gertrud Friedmann, as she recogn

In May 2020 my mother, Dr Gertrud Friedmann, died. Born in Slovakia, she survived the Holocaust in hiding with her family. You can read a...

June 14, 2023, would have been Judith’s Kerr 100th birthday. I am so grateful that I was able to interview Judith in 2001 and that I...

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In the week of HMD 2023 I was privileged to have been able to share the stories of four Slovak Jewish Survivors (Gerta Vrbova, Sara...

I am delighted that twelve of the interviews I conducted 20 years ago for a film installation in the Continental Britons exhibition at...

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I'm a Social Anthropologist and Oral Historian who's worked on many oral history projects, curated a wide range of exhibitions and made...