Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction

Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel

Chapter 1

The Society for the Furtherance of the Critical Philosophy (SFCP): A Foundation of German Female Refugees and their British Comrades in 1940

Dieter Krohn*

Chapter 2

Gertrud Meyer (1914–2002): Ein politisches Leben im Schatten Willy Brandts

Gertrud Lenz*

Chapter 3

Layers of Concealment: Post-War Cultures of Surveillance and Secrecy in the Lives of Jewish Refugees, as Exemplified by the Case of Steffi Dinger

Gaby Weiner

Chapter 4

“A Heart in Transit”: The Unusual Life of Lotte Moos

Merilyn Moos

Chapter 5

Hana Benešová: The Forgotten First Lady

Jana Barbora Buresova

Chapter 6

Marriages of Convenience as a Strategy to Escape to the UK

Irene Messinger

Chapter 7

Women Refugee Academics at the University of London

Felicitas M. Starr-Egger

Chapter 8

Reformpädagoginnen im englischen Exil

Inge Hansen-Schaberg

Chapter 9

Women Exile Photographers

John March

Chapter 10

Charlotte Bondy: A Graphic Designer in Exile

Jennifer Taylor

Chapter 11

Elisabeth Tomalin: Emigrée Designer 1912–2012 “The only joy in life is being creative. Everything else is more or less pain”

Rachel Dickson

Chapter 12

“‘Meine Heimat’ is in my Heart and my Head”. Women Artists in Exile: Susan Einzig (1922–2009) and Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959)

Sarah MacDougall*

Chapter 13

Female Fate or: Alma Wittlin’s Quest for Democracy*

Hadwig Kraeutler

Chapter 14 

Women Gardeners and Garden Architects from Vienna, in Austria and in Exile

Ulrike Krippner and Iris Meder*

Chapter 15

Marginalised Voices: Women in Irish Exile

Gisela Holfter

Chapter 16

Does Gender Matter? Reflections on the Role of Gender in Women’s Oral History Narratives

Bea Lewkowicz

Index