Addendum

Please could the listener note two areas of clarification in relation to the recording of this podcast.

The first at 5 minutes, 38 seconds. The listener should hear: “Some of these Balts and Ukrainians were highly nationalistic, and some were even former collaborators in the Nazi genocidal assault on the Jews.”

The second at 15 minutes, 25 seconds. Rather than Anglo-Jewish servicemen, the listener should hear: “the presence at the congregation of American Jewish servicemen from army units based at Egginton, Weston-on-Trent and Sudbury.”

In this episode we talk to Dr Larissa Allwork from the University of Derby, through the medium of video conferencing, about the history of the Derby Hebrew Congregation and their attempts to provide relief and refuge for European Jews who faced the threat of extermination from the Nazis during the Second World War.

This conversation is based on a collection of letters held at the Derbyshire Record Office.