Dr. Ann Beaglehole (born Szegö Aniko in Hungary) is a historian and former public servant, and the author, among other works, of Refuge New Zealand: A nation’s response to refugees and asylum seekers (Otago University Press, 2013) and of A Small Price to Pay: Refugees from Hitler in New Zealand (Allen & Unwin, 1988). Her essay ‘The children are a triumph’ appeared in The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement, edited by Simone Gigliotti and Monica Tempian (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Beaglehole’s recent publications include ‘Beyond polarization?’ a conversation on the Israel-Hamas conflict (New Zealand International Review, 2024, Vol.49, Number 3). Her essay ‘Aotearoa New Zealand’ was in Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History and Representation, edited by Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi (University of Nebraska Press, 2025). Another recent publication was Beaglehole’s memoir How to be an Alien: A sort of Memoir (Fraser Books, 2025). More information about her work can be found at Read NZ Te Pou Muramura: https://www.read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/beaglehole-ann.