‘They threw themselves into political action in support of CND.’ Photo: Book cover of How to be a Refugee: Life lessons by one who escaped the Holocaust, by Irene Gabriele Gill

Author: Irene Gabriele Gill. Review by Glen Williams

How to be a Refugee: Life lessons by one who escaped the Holocaust, by Irene Gabriele Gill

Author: Irene Gabriele Gill. Review by Glen Williams

by Glen Williams 25th November 2022

Oxford Friend Irene Gill has written a truly remarkable book about the first eighty-nine years of her life. It begins with how she, her parents and siblings arrived in Oxford in 1939. Both parents were part Jewish, and needed to escape from Germany. Her father found employment at the university.