Bea Lewkowicz is a Social Anthropologist and Oral Historian with over 30 years of experience documenting the life stories of individuals shaped by displacement and upheaval. She has curated numerous exhibitions, directed multiple films, and co-founded two significant oral history archives: the AJR Refugee Voices Archive and the Sephardi Voices UK Archive, where she currently serves as Director. A member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the University of London and the Editorial Committee of Jewish Renaissance, she has also trained others in oral history methodology. Her work explores themes such as trauma and memory, diasporas, nationalism, and the construction of identity. Deeply influenced by her own family hBea Lewkowicz is a Social Anthropologist and Oral Historian with over 30 years of experience documenting the life stories of individuals shaped by displacement and upheaval. She has curated numerous exhibitions, directed multiple films, and co-founded two significant oral history archives: the AJR Refugee Voices Archive and the Sephardi Voices UK Archive, where she currently serves as Director. A member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the University of London and the Editorial Committee of Jewish Renaissance, she has also trained others in oral history methodology. Her work explores themes such as trauma and memory, diasporas, nationalism, and the construction of identity. Deeply influenced by her own family history—her parents were child survivors of the Holocaust from Poland and Czechoslovakia—she has long been committed to preserving the voices of those forced to leave their homes. Through sound, image, and storytelling, Lewkowicz continues to give voice to personal histories and make them accessible to wider audiences....more