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Dr Anthony Grenville, son of Jewish refugees who fled from Vienna to London in 1938, was educated at the University of Oxford and lectured in German at the Universities of Reading, Bristol and Westminster. He worked with the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) and was Editor of its monthly journal from 2006 to 2017. Grenville co-founded its Refugee Voices archive of filmed interviews and co-created the exhibition Continental Britons: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Persecution to mark AJR’s sixtieth anniversary. For several years, he was a member of the executive committee of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung and was awarded Ehrenmitgliedschaft in 2021. Grenville was a founder of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, University of London, and since 2013 has served as its Chair.