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‘This beautiful and hospitable country’: a German Jewish family finds refuge in Dublin (The Irish Times) - Index on Censorship

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‘This beautiful and hospitable country’: a German Jewish family finds refuge in Dublin (The Irish Times)
Publisher Ursula Owen recounts her grandparents’ escape from Nazi Germany to Ireland via London. Ursula Owen was a founding director of Virago Press in 1974 and later joint managing director. In the 1990s, she became a director of the Paul Hamlyn Fund, cultural policy adviser to the British Labour Party and chief executive of Index on Censorship.
10 Jan 20

Publisher Ursula Owen recounts her grandparents’ escape from Nazi Germany to Ireland via London.

Ursula Owen was a founding director of Virago Press in 1974 and later joint managing director. In the 1990s, she became a director of the Paul Hamlyn Fund, cultural policy adviser to the British Labour Party and chief executive of Index on Censorship.

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