World Jewish Relief’s Annual dinner earlier this year was hosted by Suzy Klein, Head of Arts and Classical Music at the BBC. Klein shared her personal connection to World Jewish Relief, recounting how her grandfather fled Nazi-occupied Hungary in 1939. She revealed that she discovered his registration slip in our Archives; a document that had remained unseen by her family for 85 years.
In Suzy Klein’s words, “I discovered, in World Jewish Relief’s extensive archives, a small piece of my Grandfather’s history that I had never seen…. his registration slip from when he, and two of his siblings, first arrived in the UK – scared, alone, with not a word of English between them. In the 85 years since my Grandfather entered this country, no one in my family had ever seen this document – a vivid reminder that for so many Jews across Europe, home became something preserved in the memory, never to be seen again. Knowing that World Jewish Relief was there, on the ground, ready to help people like my grandpa, who had lost everything, is deeply moving.”
