‘From Kindertransport to Calais: The Story of Child Refugees’
Reflections on past and present responses to the welfare needs of refugee children
A free public panel discussion event will be jointly hosted by Newnham College, Murray Edwards College and Lucy Cavendish College to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2017.
Panel members will include:
- Phoebe Griffith, Associate Director for Migration, Integration and Community at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
- Mike Levy, a Fellow in Holocaust Education with the Imperial War Museum and a playwright at Keystage Arts and Heritage
- Dr Anne-Laura Van Harmelen, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College. Her research focuses on the cognitive, neurobiological and behavioral consequences of childhood maltreatment
- Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK
Jackie Ashley, broadcaster and journalist, President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, will chair the discussion.
The event will take place on Monday, January 23 from 5.30pm to 7pm in Clough Hall at Newnham College. It will be followed by a drinks reception hosted by Professor Dame Carol Black, Principal of Newnham College.
The evening will launch a week of events celebrating the work of the largely forgotten group of local volunteers, mostly university women, associated with the Cambridge Children’s Refugee Committee, which served the welfare needs of hundreds of refugee children fleeing Nazi persecution during the Second World War.
Before and after the event there will be an opportunity to view the exhibition ‘WE MUST SAVE THE CHILDREN – THE CAMBRIDGE CHILDREN’S REFUGEE COMMITTEE’, in the Old Labs, Newnham College.
Picture credit: Steve Gumaer