Uprooted Lives: Obituaries of Refugees and Survivors of the Holocaust
From the AJR Journal, 1955–2025
Extraordinary lives. Remarkable legacies.
Discover the extraordinary stories of Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors who found sanctuary in Britain, rebuilt their lives and helped shape the country we know today.
Uprooted Lives: Obituaries of Refugees and Survivors of the Holocaust from the AJR Journal 1955–2025 brings together a remarkable collection of life stories, drawn from seven decades of obituaries published in the AJR Journal.
Compiled and edited by Andrew Kaufman MBE and Dr Bea Lewkowicz OBE, and published by the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) to mark the 80th anniversary of the AJR Journal, this richly illustrated anthology offers a unique insight into a generation whose lives were transformed by persecution, displacement and renewal.
Lives that shaped modern Britain
The book features internationally renowned figures including Rabbi Dr Leo Baeck, Anna Essinger, Anna Freud CBE, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, Judith Kerr OBE and Sir Ernst Gombrich, whose achievements transformed British intellectual, cultural, scientific and public life.
Alongside these celebrated names are hundreds of equally compelling stories of educators, doctors, lawyers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, social workers and community leaders.
Together, their experiences form a powerful collective biography of a generation who, having lost so much, went on to make extraordinary contributions to British society.
