Ailish Donachie, History Student, University of Stirling We are pleased to host this blog by history student Ailish Donachie, who recently returned from a trip to Budapest organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust. In it, she discusses the important place of food in the life stories of Hungarian Holocaust survivors Food is something that unites Read More
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German, Austrian and Czechoslovak Refugees in Domestic Service in Ceredigion during the Second World War: Pantgwyn and areas outside Aberystwyth
Conor Brockbank, Modern History Graduate, Aberystwyth University The final blog in this series will explore the lives of the refugees from National Socialism who worked in domestic service in the areas outside of Aberystwyth and those who were guests at Pantgwyn, a guest house in the area by 1940. This blog will continue to consider Read More
German and Austrian Refugees in Domestic Service in Ceredigion during the Second World War: Aberystwyth and Llanbadarn Fawr
Conor Brockbank, Modern History Graduate Part five in this blogpost series will explore the lives and experiences of refugees from National Socialism who worked in domestic service in houses throughout Aberystwyth and Llanbadarn Fawr. This blog will address some of the questions set out in the first blog in this series, as well as questions Read More
German and Austrian Refugees at the National Library of Wales and in Agriculture in Aberystwyth during the Second World War
Conor Brockbank, Modern History Graduate, Aberystwyth University Part four in this blogpost series will explore the lives of refugees from National Socialism who came to work and reside in Aberystwyth due to the evacuation of artwork from the British Museum and the National Gallery, or simply as a safe haven which for some caused a Read More
The Evacuated German and Austrian Students and Staff of University College London in Aberystwyth during the Second World War: 3. Interned UCL Students in Australia & Canada
Conor Brockbank, Modern History Graduate, Aberystwyth University The final blog focusing on the evacuated University College London (UCL) students will explore the life stories and experiences of nine students who ended up being interned in either Australia or Canada, far away from both their safe haven of Aberystwyth and their homelands of Germany and Austria. Read More
The Evacuated German and Austrian Students and Staff of University College London in Aberystwyth during the Second World War: 2. Interned UCL Students & Staff on the Isle of Man
Conor Brockbank, Modern History Graduate, Aberystwyth University Part two of this blogpost series will explore the individual stories of the one University College London (UCL) student and four members of staff who faced internment on the Isle of Man after they had been evacuated to Aberystwyth. As it had been during the First World War, Read More
The Evacuated German and Austrian Students and Staff of University College London in Aberystwyth during the Second World War: 1. UCL Students not interned
Conor Brockbank, Modern History Graduate, Aberystwyth University During the Second World War, nationals from Germany and Austria, many of whom had their citizenship removed and had found refuge in Britain in the years before the war began, were subjected to the judgement and suspicion of being “enemy aliens”. Austrians, it is important to note, had Read More
From “Refugees” to “Enemy Aliens”: Germans and Austrians in Aberystwyth during the Second World War
Morris Brodie, Digital Intern at Aberystwyth University In the Ceredigion Archives in Aberystwyth, there is a book compiled by the Cardiganshire Police in 1939 containing photographs of Jewish refugees who fled from Nazi tyranny before the Second World War. These are not records of Welsh hospitality, however. They are arrest records, taken as a result Read More
Researching the trails of “refugee industrialists”
Tiffany Beebe, PhD Candidate at University of Colorado Boulder As a PhD researcher working on the “refugee industrialists” who settled in Britain during the Second World War, I’ve spent countless hours in dozens of archives reading dusty old business files and government reports. Don’t get me wrong, I love my work but sometimes it’s a little Read More
Aberystwyth Castle Park Co-Curation Event, 22 August 2021
Morris Brodie, Digital Intern at Aberystwyth University On 22 August 2021, we held our second live co-curation event with local refugees. In addition to some refugees and volunteers from AberAid, who we met at our earlier event at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in July, we were joined by volunteers from Croeso Teifi and a refugee Read More