At the start of October 2021, we began a new oral history project. After a successful crowdfunding campaign, we are began capture the stories of 70 members of the south Wales Jewish community. This oral history project is quite different to the one undertaken back in 2018/19. Previously, interviews would take place in people’s homes and the team would travel across the UK to capture the stories of those who had stayed in Wales and those who had left the community over the years. During the Covid-19 pandemic this was obviously impossible to do, so we took the decision to only interview using Zoom. Although this has changed the more personal aspects of face-to-face interviewing, it has enabled us to speak to people who now live outside the UK, including Israel and Australia.

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Laura Henley Harrison, Oral History Officer.