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The AJR provides an extensive range of social and welfare services, and grants financial assistance to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution living in Great Britain.  Read more ...

	BFI Mediateque Oy Britannia The AJR is happy to promote the BFI Mediateque's new collection Oy Britannia. Launched in association with the UK Jewish Film Festival, Oy Britannia brings together documentary records of Jewish life in the UK and artists’ work confronting the 20th century Jewish experience. The collection includes TV classics like Bar Mitzvah Boy (1974), contemporary shorts and feature films. For further details please click here[link]
	Ghetto pensions review Following a court ruling in Germany it is now possible for people whose applications for a ghetto pension were rejected, to have these claims reviewed. The court has ruled that the previous eligibility criteria were too restrictive and that as a result peoples’ claims were unjustly rejected.[more...]
	The Kindness of Strangers The New North London Synagogue is organising an afternoon of appreciation for the children who came with the Kindertransport and for members of families who received and welcomed them.[more...]
	From Dachau to D-Day The Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal Football Club, has honoured AJR member Willy Field with a special evening to launch his new biography From Dachau to D-Day written by historian Dr Helen Fry.[more...]
	Volunteer Fairs AJR particpated at volunteers fairs for 6th formers at JFS, Yavneh College, Hasmonean and Immanuel College. These events proved to be a great success with more than 100 students signing up to become volunteers for the AJR.[more...]
	AJR Twins with Mitzvah Day The AJR is delighted to be both a partner and a project for Mitzvah Day 2009, which this year takes place on Sunday 15 November.[more...]
	AJR Celebration Tea The AJR celebrated its Annual Tea on Sunday 13 September 2009 at the Watford Hilton.[more...]
	Extension of Austrian pension law The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) is delighted to learn of the improvement in Austrian social security law that extends the right to an Austrian state retirement pension to Jewish Nazi victims born in Austria after the Anschluss (12 March 1938) and before the end of the Second World War (8 May 1945).[more...]
	Kindertransport survey launched The Kindertransport committee of the AJR is delighted to announce that it has completed the Kindertransport Survey, ‘Making New Lives in Britain’.[more...]
	Our friends in the North From North, South, East and West, over 80 members gathered in Leeds at the end of July for the annual Northern Get-Together and a northern Kinder Celebration.[more...]
	Claims Conference appoints new Executive Vice President The AJR is delighted to congratulate Greg Schneider on his recent appointment as Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference.[more...]
	Celebration of Volunteering 2009 Over 60 volunteers were presented with certificates by Andrew Kaufman, Chairman of the AJR, at a ceremony in the House of Lords. He thanked Lord Janner of Braunstone for hosting this first of its kind event for the AJR. Andrew also thanked the volunteers for giving their time, energy, enthusiasm and for the compassion they so readily show to the members of the AJR.[more...]
	Southern Regional lunch at Edwina Currie's Southern region AJR members had a wonderful day out thanks to the generous hospitality of author and former politician Edwina Currie and her husband John.[more...]
	AJR launches Refugee Voices The AJR's groundbreaking audio-visual Holocaust testimony archive, Refugee Voices, was launched at an event at the Wiener Library on 18 June.[more...]
	Churchill's German Army On 25th June it was a historic afternoon for the AJR when a full house of 80 people from many different groups met at Alyth Gardens Shul to view a special showing arranged by Esther, Hazel and Myrna of the documentary "Churchill's German Army". This was made with the help of German and Austrian Jewish refugees who joined the British forces during the war and now meet regularly at the Imperial Cafe in Golders Green with Dr Helen Fry, the author of "The King's Most Loyal Enemy Aliens".[more...]
	Annual General Meeting At this year’s Annual General Meeting, Chairman Andrew Kaufman reported that the AJR had, not surprisingly, been unable to escape the financial turbulence of recent months.[more...]
	Exile Studies With the kind permission of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, we reproduce here an article about the AJR written by the AJR Journal’s Consultant Editor Dr Tony Grenville.[more...]
	Claims Conference The AJR distributes funds allocated to the UK by the Claims Conference following its negotiations with, amongst others, the German and Austrian governments for social and welfare programmes for Holocaust survivors and refugees.[more...]
	Continental Britons exhibition: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Europe We are delighted to announce that we have now added the Continental Britons exhibition, sponsored by the AJR in conjunction with the Jewish Museum, to our website. Please click here to view the exhibition.[more...]