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Lord Alf Dubs
Trevor Sage. (Photo credit: Jitka Hejtman Studio)
September 14, 2021, 3:15 pm
Lord Dubs backs fundraiser for book on Prague’s Shoah stumbling stones
Peer who came to the UK from Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport, is supporting a crowdfunding campaign set up by expat Trevor Sage to showcase memorials to victims of the Holocaust
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Lord Alf Dubs
March 24, 2021, 5:02 pm
Lord Dubs leads criticism of Priti Patel’s overhaul of asylum system
Refugee campaigner who fled the Nazis as a child accuses Priti Patel of fuelling criminality by removing legal routes to safety
By Jewish News Reporter
January 14, 2021, 12:03 am
120 Over 80 – meet our golden generation!
From educators and rabbis to political campaigners and community leaders, we highlight – in partnership with Jewish Care – the impact of our community's oldest and wisest members.
By Jewish News
Sir David Attenborough recalled how his parents helped save two Kindertransport refugees during the Second World War. Credit: BBC/Sarah Dunn
December 3, 2020, 12:56 pm
‘We are one family’: Sir David Attenborough recalls Jewish refugee ‘sisters’
Francine Wolfisz hears how the family of the beloved 94-year-old natural historian looked after two Kindertransport children during the Second World War
By Francine Wolfisz
Lord Alf Dubs, Rabbi Gluck and representatives from the Jewish Council for Racial Equality at a demo in support of child refugee resettlement Credit: Dinendra Haria
November 20, 2020, 9:00 am
OPINION: Like me, child refugees should get a second chance of life in the UK
For World Children’s Day, Kindertransport refugee Lord Alf Dubs, says the UK must draw on its long-standing values of compassion and leadership
By Alf Dubs
Lord Dubs with campaigners for refugees in January, including Edie Friedman of JCORE
November 17, 2020, 3:48 pm
Jewish equality group explores impact of pandemic on asylum system
There has been 'an increase in hostile rhetoric from the government to those supporting displaced people' an organiser of the virtual JCORE event said
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
October 6, 2020, 11:23 am
Lord Dubs helps inflict six Lords defeats on ‘shabby’ immigration legislation
Labour peer who came to the UK on the kindertransport sponsored a change to the bill to ensure continued help for unaccompanied child refugees
By Jack Mendel
Lord Alf Dubs
April 7, 2020, 4:28 pm
Lord Dubs to cite Kindertransport journey in Easter message for Humanists
Czech-born Labour peer will tell prisoners how he escaped the Holocaust, referencing 'refugees today living in terrible conditions in the camps of Greece and northern France'
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Dubs with campaigners for refugees in January, including Edie Friedman of JCORE
January 20, 2020, 4:56 pm
Lord Alf Dubs joins Jewish campaigners in refugee demonstration
Rabbis and activists met by Labour peer as part of campaign to allow young refugees to be reunited with their families
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
December 20, 2019, 12:16 pm
Lord Dubs ‘bitterly disappointed and angry’ at scrapping of child refugee pledge
Labour peer who fled the Nazis as a boy said he is 'absolutely shocked' by Boris Johnson's move, accusing the government of 'turning their backs' on the most vulnerable
By Jack Mendel
Lord Alf Dubs
From the WebDecember 20, 2019, 11:00 am
Board of Deputies says Boris’ plan to scrap Dubs Amendment is ‘poor decision’
British Jews hit out at the PM's intention to 'tear up' deal put forward by Kindertransport refugee Lord Dubs, allowing child refugees with family in the UK to be reunited
December 19, 2019, 12:35 pm
Kindertransport families to open educational display at Imperial War Museum
Schools have been invited for educational sessions at the display titled ‘A Child’s Road to Freedom', which tells the story of how 10,000 children escaped the Nazis to Britain
By Jewish News Reporter
Jewish Children Refugees Arriving From Germany In London On February 1939
From the WebDecember 19, 2019, 12:00 pm
Kindertransport families to open educational display at Imperial War Museum
Special display titled ‘A Child’s Road to Freedom' will tell the story of how 10,000 mainly Jewish children escaped the Nazis to Britain
By Jewish News Reporter
Sajid Javid, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, Luciana Berger and Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger
November 26, 2019, 10:41 am
Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury back Chief Rabbi’s attack on Labour
Former Labour MP Luciana Berger and crossbench peer Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger among other key figures supporting Ephraim Mirvis' remarks in The Times
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Alf Dubs
October 7, 2019, 1:37 pm
British citizenship test questions do not reflect society, Lord Dubs claims
Questions posed to applicants 'do not on the whole seem to me to reflect the society we live in,' the Labour peer wrote
By Mathilde Frot
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