The AJR provides an extensive range of social and welfare services, and grants financial assistance to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution living in Great Britain.
The AJR’s plaque scheme honours prominent Jewish émigrés from Nazism who made a significant contribution to their adopted homeland.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Association of Jewish Refugees
November 2014 the plaque was reported as "torn down" but, with promises of a ...
Such a sad and touching subject, these children can't fail but bring to mind ...
Otto Schiff, CBE, 1875 - 1952, founder and director of the Jewish Refugees Co...
The plaque was unveiled on or shortly before 10 April 2019. It was not yet on...
Rabbi Dr Leo Baeck, 1873 - 1956, theologian, teacher and philosopher, lived h...
Now called Carew Academy. It teaches pupils aged 7 to18, with a wide range of ability levels and additional learning and complex needs.
"Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years" 1984, Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney provides: "Already in the 1890s, there had been increasing interest in what would now be called yout...
Missionary and social worker with the British poor, especially children. Born Thomas John Barnardo in Dublin with a Prussian father. "Brought to Christ" in 1862. Arrived at 30 Coburn Street in 1866...
Person, Children, Jack the Ripper suspects, Social Welfare, Ireland
Nursery nurse. She worked for over forty years at Christ Church School, in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, (the area in which she grew up and lived herself). A popular character, remembered by many for h...
Character in a series of stories set in Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys weekly story magazine 'The Magnet'.
Four stone bridges have spanned the Thames at this point. The first was built in about 1210 and lasted right through the medieval period. This was the one that had the spikes and is shown in some d...
Architect. Born in Paisley. His works include: Selfridges in Oxford Street, Daily Telegraph office in Fleet Street, Unilever House in Blackfriars and Sydney Harbour Bridge. His own house also got a...
Prime Minister 1916–1922. Born in Manchester to Welsh parents who returned to Wales that same year, where he was brought up. From 1923 until at least 1936 he supported Nazi Germany, admiring Hitl...
Dean of St Paul’s from 1871 to 1890. Died Dover. 2019: We were contacted by Ann Hentschel who told us that church was born Lisbon, Portugal, not Newport, Wales, as we had read elsewhere. Ann has p...
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