Notes on Contributors
David Clark
studied Anthropology (BA and MA) and completed his PhD on Jewish museums in Italy at London Metropolitan University. He co-edited, together with Maria Kousis and Tom Selwyn, Contested Mediterranean Spaces (Berghahn Books, 2011). Together with von Sommaruga Howard, he co-edited The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past (Peter Lang, 2021). He is a member of Second Generation Network, UK, and is currently on the Editorial Committee of Exiled Ink, a magazine devoted to works by exiled and refugee writers in the UK. David Clark is a retired lecturer and an honorary research associate at Uzhhorod National University.
Miriam E. David
is Professor Emerita of sociology of education at University College London (UCL), Institute of Education (IOE). Her research is on education, family, feminism and gender. Two recent books are Reclaiming Feminism: Challenging Everyday Misogyny (Policy Press, 2016) and A Feminist Manifesto for Education (Polity Press, 2016). She was co-editor (with Dr Marilyn Amey of Michigan State University) of the Encyclopaedia of Higher Education (4 volumes, Sage, 2020). She edited (with Merilyn Moos) Debating the Zeitgeist and Being Second Generation (Vallentine Mitchell, 2021). A family memoir entitled The Locked Safe: How safe? is her current scholarship.
Rachel Dickson
is Consulting Editor at the Ben Uri Research Unit, and formerly Head of Curatorial Services, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum (2011–2020). Her research focuses on émigré artists and designers in Britain, particularly those who fled Nazi-occupied Europe. A committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, she was contributing co-editor of Volume 19 of the Yearbook: Applied Arts in British Exile from 1933 (2019). Her biography on Dr Helen Rosenau is forthcoming in Griselda Pollock’s Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944 (2023). Rachel is enrolled in a PhD by Publication at Kingston University.
Yannick Gnipep-oo Pembouong
studied German, educational sciences, and German as a foreign and second language. He is a freelance teacher of German at various institutions. He is the author of Generation und Strategie: Barbara Honigmann im literarischen Feld der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur 1986–2015 (V&R unipress Verlag, 2020).
Anita H. Grosz
is a UK-based research doctoral student at Aberystwyth University, and her research areas include the transgenerational impact of trauma, forced dislocation, identity, memory, Second Generation, organizational development, and child refugees. Her father came to Britain in 1939 from Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport. Anita was a co-founder of the Kindertransport Association, has been on the Governing Board of the World Federation of the Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants (2002–2023), and is an active Committee member of the Second Generation Network.
Andrea Hammel
(DPhil, Sussex) is Professor of German and the Director of the Centre for the Movement of People at Aberystwyth University. She is the author of Finding Refuge: Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Fled to Wales to Escape the Nazis (Honno, 2022) and The Kindertransport: What Really Happened (Polity, 2024). She has published widely on the history and culture of Jewish refugees, and also on women exile writers who fled to the UK.
Brean Hammond
is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of many books and articles on literary history, cultural history and drama, his most recent book being Tragicomedy (Bloomsbury, 2021). Other significant books include Hackney for Bread: Professional Writing in England, 1675–1740 (OUP: Clarendon Press, 1997) and Double Falsehood (Methuen: Arden Shakespeare edition, 2010).
Stephanie Homer
is an active member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies. She was awarded her PhD from the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (formerly the Institute of Modern Languages Research), and the resulting book, The Kindertransport in Literature: Reimagining Experience, was published in 2022. Stephanie’s research interests also include adverse childhood experiences and resilience, particularly in the Kindertransport context.
Merilyn Moos
was born in Oxford, grew up in Durham, attended the University of Oxford, and took her MA at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies under Stuart Hall. She became a lecturer and writer. She has had published many articles and books on the Second Generation, including The Language of Silence, a semi-autobiographical novel; Beaten but not Defeated, a biography of her father; Breaking the Silence about the Second Generation; Anti-Nazi Germans with Steve Cushion; Living with Shadows, a memoir; and, with Miriam E. David, edited Debating the Zeitgeist and being Second Generation.
Angharad Mountford
obtained her PhD from the Institute of Modern Languages Research (now the Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies), School of Advanced Study, University of London, in 2021. Her PhD focused on Heimat and belonging in the work of four German-speaking women writers exiled in Britain from 1933. Angharad’s research interests include transnationalism and translingualism, women writing exile, refugee poetry, and identity and belonging. She is a member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies.
Jennifer Taylor
studied German at the universities of Bristol, London, and Berlin (Freie Universität). She is a founder member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London. She has published extensively on exile, including the exile press, internment, and the life and work of Jo Bondy’s parents, Paul and Charlotte Bondy.
Sue Vice
is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, where she teaches contemporary literature, film, and Holocaust studies. Her latest books are Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ Outtakes: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance (2021) and the co-edited collection The Politics of Dementia: Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives (2021), with Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff and Nina Schmidt.
Teresa von Sommaruga Howard
D. Architecture (hons), Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis. Teresa von Sommaruga Howard is the daughter of a Jewish refugee from Germany and a non-Jewish British mother. She grew up in Aotearoa New Zealand, a bicultural country, but now lives in the UK and works internationally. She is an architect, systemic family therapist and group analyst. Working with large groups in everyday situations is her passion, focusing on the long-term effects of socio-political trauma. She has written and published extensively, and co-authored Design through Dialogue: A Guide for Clients and Architects (Wiley, 2010).