This online roundtable brought together scholars and practitioners to examine the Kindertransport through archival research, personal testimony, and reflective practice. Exploring sources ranged from international archives to refugees’ own words, the discussion considered how the Kindertransport has been remembered, interpreted, and mobilised in British culture, and why it continues to matter today.

Speakers:

• Dr Amy Williams (Association of Jewish Refugees) Using international, national, and local archives to construct a transnational history of the Kindertransport
• Dr Monja Stahlberger (University of Reading) Listening to Kindertransport Refugees in Their Own Words: how ego documents of the early years in Britain give us unique insights
• Howard Falksohn (Wiener Holocaust Library) Kindertransporte: An archivist’s personal perspective

Chair:

• Dr Joseph Cronin (Leo Baeck Institute London)

https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransport-26

This event was hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute London in collaboration with the British-German Association.

19 March 2026, 7:00PM - 08:00 PM

Christine Schmidt, Bea Lewkowicz, Natalia Aleksiun The Wiener Holocaust Library, London6 November 2025, 6:30PM - 08:00 PM

The inaugural Eva Reichmann Lecture, held as part of the LBI 70th Anniversary Celebrations:

Eva Reichmann: Witness, Historian, Legacy

This special event celebrates the legacy of Dr. Eva Reichmann, a pioneering historian whose groundbreaking work continues to shape our understanding of Nazi persecution and Holocaust historiography.

Welcome & Introduction

Dr. Joseph Cronin (Director, Leo Baeck Institute London) and Dr. Toby Simpson (Director, The Wiener Holocaust Library) will open the evening by reflecting on Eva Reichmann’s enduring connection to both institutions and the significance of the new lecture series.

Roundtable Discussion

An expert panel will explore Reichmann’s life, work, and impact:

• Christine Schmidt (Wiener Holocaust Library)
• Bea Lewkowicz (AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive)
• Natalia Aleksiun (University of Florida)

Topics will include Reichmann’s efforts to collect eyewitness accounts, her role in shaping Holocaust scholarship, and the contemporary relevance of her work in understanding antisemitism and historical memory.

Q&A Session (20–30 minutes)

Followed by light refreshments.

This event will be live-streamed and recorded. Attendance is free, but registration is required.

This event is co-hosted by The Leo Baeck Institute London and The Wiener Holocaust Library and sponsored by the Hans and Berthold Finkelstein Foundation.

Image: The Wiener Holocaust Library collections

https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk/reichmann

In the early twentieth century, German-Jewish thinkers converged upon Daoism as a means to criticise state power and the dominance of economic productivity in modern society. Figures like Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin explored how Daoist ideas could inspire alternative ways of organising social and economic life, thereby challenging stereotypes of ‘China’ as passive or non-productive. This talk examines how their engagement with Daoism offered a vision of religion’s role in everyday life that moved beyond racialised notions of activity and inactivity, and the mercantilist-salvational paradigm then dominant in Western societies.Julia Ng is Reader in Critical Theory and founding Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. A specialist in the work of Walter Benjamin, whose essay ‘Toward the Critique of Violence’ she recently translated for a critical edition she co-edited for Stanford University Press (2021), she is currently completing a book on Daoism and Capitalism with support from a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. Does belonging always require exclusion? This lecture series explores this universal question through the lens of the German-Jewish experience, a community deeply shaped by its complex relationship to inclusion and exclusion. Spanning key moments in modern history, these talks examine German-Jewish thinkers’ responses to the dominant ‘Protestant ethic’, debates over nationalism in interwar Germany and Austria, the warped ideology of Adolf Hitler, and the long struggle of German Jews to reclaim citizenship after the Holocaust. Join us as we situate these experiences within today’s urgent debates about identity and belonging.Lecture recorded at Senate House, London on Thursday, November 27, 2025Images from the lecture, and other streaming links, are available on the Leo Baeck Institute London website: https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25