Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies

10/03/2026

Join us at 'Thinking Authoritarianism: The Prague-Vienna Circle in British Exile' on 6 May 2026. Speakers at the workshop will include Jeremy Adler, Peter Filkins, Maria Peacock and Erhard Schüttpelz. Programme and further details at:
https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/thinking-authoritarianism-prague-vienna-circle-british-exile
Advance registration essential!

This workshop focuses on the ‘Prague-Vienna Circle’, a group of Jewish friends from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire who, having survived the Holocaust and reunited in British exile after 1945, sought to make sense of the momentous events they had witnessed. The circle comprised Nobel laureate...

26/02/2026

Another of our Exile Archive collections has just been catalogued: the Siegfried and Lotte Moos Papers.

Siegfried and Lotte Moos were remarkable German anti-N**i refugees who rebuilt their lives in Britain after fleeing Berlin in 1933. Their archive tells a story of political resistance, creativity, and survival.

We’re excited to share that this fascinating collection is now available to explore.

Find out more here:

The papers give an insight into the lives of two, nominally Jewish, refugees from the N***s who had to flee Germany in 1933 because of their political beliefs and activities.

25/02/2026

(Hi)stories of the German-Jewish Diaspora: Reflections on a Hybrid Publication Initiative

📅 15 April 2026, 6:00–7:30pm
📍 Room 261, Senate House, University of London — with live Zoom stream

Register now for our upcoming seminar by Professor Miriam Rürup and Dr Lisa Sophie Gebhard of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies.

They join us in London to explore the innovative publication initiative (Hi)stories of the German-Jewish Diaspora, a collaborative project examining the experiences of Jews who left German-speaking Europe, particularly after 1933, and forged new identities and connections around the world. Rather than framing diaspora as a story of longing for return, the project highlights fluidity, adaptation, and the ongoing reshaping of memory, culture, and belonging.

Rürup and Gebhard will discuss the project’s foundations, aims, and challenges, as well as its relevance for understanding migration, displacement, and identity formation today.

The event is free and open to all, with both in-person and online attendance options. Advance registration is essential.

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Speakers:  Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam/Oxford) and Lisa Sophie Gebhard (Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam) What happens when people are forced to leave their homes – but take their languages, cultures, and memories along...

18/02/2026

In her latest post Miller Archivist Kat Hubschmann tells the story of LGBT+ writer Annette Eick through the photographs in the Senate House Archive.

Kat Hubschmann writes about Annette Eick and her collection of papers, dating from the late 1920s when she was writing for le***an magazines in Berlin, to poems and journals up until her death in Devon in 2010.

13/02/2026

Registration is now open for Corinne Painter's seminar on 25 March 2026 in which she will examine life-long female political activists understood the N**i threat in the 1920s and 1930s and why they continued their fight for social justice. The seminar will be given in person at the University of London Senate House and online via Zoom.

This seminar examines the experiences and motivations of life-long female political activists to identify how they understood the N**i threat in the 1920s and 1930s and why they continued their fight for social justice. It focuses on women who, by 1933, had vast experience in political organising, m...

13/02/2026

Registration is now open for the seminar on 4 March (in person at the University of London Senate House and online via Zoom). Gisela Holfter (Limerick) and Noel Russell (Belfast) focus on the emigrés who were admitted to the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, and those who were refused entry.

Gisela Holfter (Limerick) and Noel Russell (Belfast) explore what happened to the refugees from Germany and Austria who applied to come to the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland from 1933 onwards, but were refused entry; the stories of the successful applicants who were admitted; and briefly, the...

13/02/2026

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2026, archivist Kat Hubschmann highlights some of the difficulties faced by those who tried to flee N**i oppression in Austria.

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2026, Miller Archivist Kat Hubschmann highlights some of the difficulties faced by those who tried to flee N**i oppression in Austria.

13/02/2026

Little is known about the 'Deaf Kindertransport'. In his blog post, Charlie Knight begins to uncover the story of Dr Felix Reich and the Taubstummen-Anstalt in 1930s Berlin.

Charlie Knight reflects on how studying the experiences of D/deaf and disabled refugees and their routes through migration, allows us to understand better the extreme pressures many faced and how they navigated this.

21/01/2025

Booking for Till Breyer's seminar on 12 March is now open at:
https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/goethe-french-revolution-and-figure-political-refugee
All welcome to attend in person or online. Advance online registration essential.

15/01/2025

Booking for Ellen Pilsworth's talk on Wednesday, 19 February 2025 at 18:00 is now open:
https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/hitlers-victims-jewish-and-non-jewish-refugee-memoirs-british-readers-1933-1945
Attendance in person or online – advance online registration essential.

15/01/2025

Register now for Monja Stahlberger's talk on
https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/writing-exile-kindertransport-diaries-and-making-new-lives
Wednesday, 29 January 2925 at18:00 (in person at the University of London Senate House or online – advance registration essential)