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Feb 18, 2022, 6:19 PM

On the ground helping Uyghur Muslim refugees in Turkey

I recently travelled to Turkey to see firsthand the help being provided to Uyghur Muslim refugees by World Jewish Relief, the organisation that I chair. During the visit I met four remarkable young women: teenage girls who had been exiled from their home in Xinjang, China ...

Feb 3, 2021, 4:36 PM

We wouldn’t be here without World Jewish Relief, now we’ll continue its mission

Maurice and Sir Ben Helfgott

My Dad, Ben, was one of “The Boys” – 732 survivors of the Holocaust who were brought to the UK after the Shoah in 1945. If it wasn’t for World Jewish Relief – the British Jewish organisation that conceived, funded and delivered that programme for...

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Maurice Helfgott is Chairman, World Jewish Relief