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LBI Presents: A Podcast with Mark Oppenheimer from the Leo Baeck Institute

Published by Leo Baeck Institute

LBI Presents is a podcast series from the Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin, hosted by writer and historian Mark Oppenheimer. Each episode explores stories of German‑speaking Jewish history, drawing on the LBI’s extensive archival collections. Podcast episode 7 features Kind and artist Eva Hesse.

Lord Alf Dubs, politician and campaigner

(June 15, 2025) Published by BBC Radio

A BBC Radio episode on Lord Alf Dubs, highlighting his journey from a six‑year‑old Kindertransport refugee to one of Britain’s most influential voices on refugee protection. Born in Prague in 1932, Dubs escaped Nazi‑occupied Czechoslovakia in June 1939 on a train organised by Sir Nicholas Winton, arriving at Liverpool Street Station where he was reunited with his father. The episode traces his family’s flight from persecution, his education at the London School of Economics, his election as Labour MP for Battersea South, and his later appointment to the House of Lords.