The AJR provides a range of social and welfare services, and grants financial assistance to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution living in Great Britain.

Founded in 1941 by Jewish refugees from central Europe, the AJR has extensive experience attending to the needs of Holocaust refugees and survivors who came to this country before, during and after the Second World War.

About 70,000 refugees - including approximately 10,000 children on the Kindertransport - arrived in from Nazi-occupied Europe in the late 1930s.
Many more arrived after the end of the Second World War having survived in hiding, in ghettos or in concentration camps.