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Refugee week takes place every year around World Refugee Day on 20 June, and celebrates the contributions of refugees to the UK.

On the evening of 21 November 1938, shortly after and prompted by the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht), Philip Noel-Baker, MP for Derby South, introduced a motion in the House of Commons.

We are delighted that survivors of the Holocaust have been named on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2019.

Bea Green was born in Munich in 1924. When she was 8 years old, her father was brutally beaten and forced to march through the streets with a sign around his neck. In 1939, Bea came to England as one of the children on the Kindertransport and was lucky enough to be reunited with her parents again after the war. Bea has made England her home and to this day speaks to groups all around the country to raise awareness of the dangers of antisemitism (anti-Jewish hatred) and intolerance.

Susanne Kenton is a Kindertransport refugee. Born Susanne Flanter in Berlin, where she spent the first 13 years of her life, Susanne was driven to flee her country of birth by the rise of Nazism and the horrors of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht).