Dr Bea Lewkowicz

Social anthropologist and oral historian. Director of two oral history projects: @AJRefugeeVoices and @SephardiVoices

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

Thank you @IanByrneMP @WonyongPark89 and @NigelFancourt for inviting me to speak at the parliamentary event 'From Loss to Learning', alongside members from the Hillsborough Disaster and the Real Truth Legacy Project, and The Grenfell Curriculum Project.

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

A huge thanks to Jenni Hicks & @maureenungi and all the speakers inc Hannan Wahabi & Dr Bea Lewkowicz for their powerful contributions at our event last night.
A privilege to be involved in this project which will grow in strength and numbers to put national disasters on the national curriculum ✊
#TheRealTruthLegacyProject

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

A huge thanks to Jenni Hicks & @maureenungi and all the speakers inc Hannan Wahabi & Dr Bea Lewkowicz for their powerful contributions at our event last night.
A privilege to be involved in this project which will grow in strength and numbers to put national disasters on the national curriculum ✊
#TheRealTruthLegacyProject

[Jewish News @JewishNewsUK]

Mazeltov to all those recognised

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[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

Today is the official publication date of Malcolm’s new book. Huge Congratulations @miller_malcolm!

[Malcolm Miller @miller_malcolm]

Thank you @boydellbrewer and @boydellmusic for publishing my book on Beethoven as explorer of sonic and keyboard space - For scholars, performers and music lovers! https://t.co/uozHEpomy3
Enjoy a 35% discount code BB135 at checkout. Please recommend to your librarian.

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

Please join us next Monday for an interesting exhibition and panel discussion on 'Jewish women from Slovakia' at the embassy of the Slovak Republic in London:
https://t.co/RSAQWDkLQc

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

Thank you @HolocaustUK and @TheAJR_ for posting an excerpt of my interview with Vera Schaufeld for @AJRefugeeVoices. Vera poignantly describes the hope that #VEday brought for refugees and survivors and the subsequent realisation of enormous loss, for so many.

[H.E.T. @HolocaustUK]

Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld MBE was sent to England on the Kindertransport to escape Nazi persecution. She remembers the joy of VE Day, believing she would be reunited with her parents, only to find out they had been murdered in the Holocaust. @TheAJR_

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

@AJRefugeeVoices I also discovered that three of the 732 ‘Boys’ shared my surname.

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

What a wonderful occasion to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation (and arrival) of ‘the Boys’. Thank you @45AidSociety and @RobbieRinder for such a memorable and inspiring evening!

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

Last night, we danced in joy, in remembrance and in defiance. 80 years since the ’45 Aid Society was founded by child survivors of the Holocaust who came to the UK to rebuild their lives — 732 in total, including some, like my grandfather Moshe, who were sent to Windermere to heal. With so many of their families gone, they formed a new one bound by memory, love, and resilience. From that, the ’45 Aid Society was born: a global community rooted in hope, humanity, and the belief in democracy as something sacred and hard-won. I’m incredibly proud of my mum, Angela Cohen, Chairman of the Society, for keeping that legacy alive with unwavering devotion.

One survivor said: “Victory over Hitler is my family.” That says it all. Thank you to Yvette Cooper for her powerful words and to Susanna Reid and Ed Balls for joining us on the dance floor. Because choosing joy, and dancing with hope, is the ultimate act of defiance.

The number of survivors grows smaller each year so it’s now up to you, and the generations to come, to carry their stories forward and protect the truth they entrusted to us. @45AidSociety

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

With Jackie Young and his wife Lita, who came to the UK as one of the youngest ‘Boys’. He shared his story yesterday and I the privilidge to interview him for @AJRefugeeVoices.

[AJR Refugee Voices Archive @AJRefugeeVoices]

#OTD 1945: the Soviet Army liberates the last prisoners from Ravensbrück concentration camp. Selma van de Perre was imprisoned there for her part in the Dutch resistance:

"September 6, 1944: they transported us to Ravensbrück. Terrible. Screaming, shouting, dogs & whips…"

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[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

One of Zahava Kohn's bowls features in the excellent exhibition 'Traces of Belsen' at the @wienerlibrary.
You can listen to the memories of Bergen-Belsen survivors Zahava Kohn MBE, Mirjam Finkelstein, Lilian Levy MBE, and Sara Kraus-Lefkovitz here: https://t.co/0SRYAhemDd

[80 Objects 80 Lives @eightyobjects]

53: BOWLS FROM BERGEN-BELSEN
Lady Zahava Kohn MBE
Camp & Ghetto Objects

Interviewed by Dr Bea Lewkowicz on 17/03/2016 for @AJRefugeeVoices

Full interview: https://t.co/EpJnlPaSI8
Full exhibition: https://t.co/vK1JcoMH8D

#ZahavaKohn #Amsterdam #BergenBelsen #80objects80lives

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. I feel privileged to have interviewed Helen Bamber OBE @AJRefugeeVoices in 2003. She came to Belsen with the Jewish Relief Unit and told me how important it was to listen to the survivors.

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

Looking forward to a conversation with Eric Marcus. Please join us.

[H.E.T. @HolocaustUK]

Join @TheAJR_ for Voices from the Shadows, a powerful event exploring LGBTQ+ experiences during the Nazi era, hosted by Eric Marcus of Making Gay History. Find out more here: https://t.co/yF8VbvSv1x

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

Thank you @CIBCCM for inviting me to speak about the importance of testimony on #HMD2025.

[World Jewish Congress @WorldJewishCong]

80 years ago today, Auschwitz was liberated. Naftali Fürst was a prisoner there, alongside his father and brother. The tattoo he still bears on his arm is a lasting reminder of the cruelty of Auschwitz—and his survival is a testament to resilience and strength.

On this solemn anniversary, let us heed the lessons of the Holocaust: don’t be indifferent. 

Join the #WeRemember campaign and honor the memory of those who suffered.
Visit https://t.co/mPxjcUZK0u.

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

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[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

Thank you Foreign Secretary David Lammy for talking about @eightyobjects in your speech today on #HMD2025.

Next generation must learn of ‘catastrophic moral failure’ of Holocaust – Lammy | The Standard

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

Today on #YomHaShoah2024 I remember Moise Solomon Amir (1912 - 2001) and Palomba Florentin Allalouf (1923 - 1999), who survived Auschwitz and returned to #Thessaloniki alone, without their families. I interviewed them 30 years ago. While Palomba was able to talk, Moise could not.

[Dr Bea Lewkowicz @bea_lewkowicz]

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