A Legacy of Anti-Fasicm
Image: Civil Liberties in Britain, (extract) 1965.
Jewish activists would continue to play a significant role in Birmingham throughout the twentieth century. This is an article by Maurice Ludmer, in ...
Bearwood Holocaust Survivor
Image: Harry Levine Jewish Community Press Book Cuttings, 1939-42
no 519406.
Why was it necessary to offer refuge and work to Jewish migrants in the 1930's? This newspaper article features the profoundly ...
Fighting Prejudice
In the twentieth century, the 'Birmingham Hebrew Congregation' of Singer's Hill faced a humanitarian crisis- the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany.
In WWII, Hitler's brutal regime would ...
'Gays and Fascism'
LGBT people have faced serious prejudice and persecution in the past, and the cover of this issue of 'Gladrag' (the newsletter of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front) reminds us both of the large numbers ...
Oswald Mosley
Image: Oswald Mosley at the Town Hall. (Birmingham Newspaper Cuttings Political History 1930-1932)
It is important to remember that at the time people like Rev Cohen were making speeches against the ...
The Battle of Cable Street
Image taken from the 'Picture Post' (1943) of vandalism to Jewish property during the battle of Cable Street.
"The Battle of Cable Street or Cable Street Riot took place on Sunday October 4, 1936 ...