This book gives a voice to 12 British-born children of refugees from
Nazism - the 'second generation'. In the current zeitgeist of Brexit and
beyond, exacerbated by Covid-19, the authors want to ensure that nothing
like Nazism and its deeply embedded antisemitism ever happens again.
They are all committed to gender, social and sex-based equality, human
rights, anti-racism and support for refugees today as the basis of
social transformation. They explore how far being the child of a parent
who had fled fascism affected their political leanings and made them
into the passionate anti-racists and human rights campaigners that they
are. They also consider how their heritage gave them a feeling of 'being
distinct' and contributed to their political legacy. The book is highly
topical, given the contemporary conversations about Britishness and/or
Englishness post-Brexit, and the ways that migrants and refugees are now
'othered', marginalised or made to feel different. This is despite the
fact that they or their children may have been born in Britain. The
authors all empathise with the plight of current migrants and refugees,
and most celebrate their own European Jewish heritage.
