The Leo Baeck Institute London is delighted to invite you to a special double‑feature online screening from the LBI Film Club, available free of charge for one week beginning Monday, 19 January 2026. Subscribe to be notified about more FREE Film Club films by visiting https://lbilondon.ac.uk/mailing-list/ and selecting LBI Film Club

This event brings together scholars and individuals with personal connections to the Kindertransport to explore its legacy in British memory and culture. The discussion will examine historical narratives, cultural representations, and the continuing significance of the Kindertransport in shaping British identity.

Online (hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute London in collaboration with the British-German Association)

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Personal narratives such as diaries, letters, memoirs, and autobiographies often capture experiences of migration, exile, and cultural transition that are less visible in other forms of documentation. This conference seeks to explore how ego-documents function as records of transnational experience, linguistic negotiation, and cultural hybridity. Ego-documents allow for what Iriye and Saunier (2009) termed the ‘links and flows’ between states and the history of ‘people, ideas, products, processes and patterns’ to be elucidated. The study of the diary or the letter for example allows the…