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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 ...

	Terezin guidelines At the end of May in Prague 43 nations adopted a set of "Guidelines and Best Practices for the Restitution and Compensation of Immovable (Real) Property Confiscated or Otherwise Wrongfully Seized by the Nazis, Fascists and Their Collaborators during the Holocaust (Shoah) Era between 1933-1945, Including the Period of World War II."[more...]
	Jewish Volunteering Network Awards AJR nominees were runners-up in two categories at the inaugural Jewish Volunteering Network (JVN) Awards event held at the London Jewish Cultural Centre on Wednesday June 9.[more...]
	Sir Andrew Burns appointed first UK Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues The AJR welcomes the British government’s decision to create a United Kingdom Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues and the appointment of Sir Andrew Burns to this post.[more...]
	GSI Newsletter Click here to read the latest Generations of the Shoah International (GSI) newsletter.[link]
	Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain The AJR is delighted to announce the publication of a new book by Dr Anthony Grenville, Consultant Editor, AJR Journal. Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain:Their Image in ‘AJR Information’ (Vallentine Mitchell, 2009) is the first history of the refugees who fled to Britain from the German-speaking lands after 1933.[more...]
	Theo Marx It is with great sadness that the AJR announces the passing of its former Chairman, Theo Marx, at the age of 89.[more...]
	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...]
	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...]
	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...]
	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...]