Invisible Walls by Hella Pick

Nationwide arts festival celebrating refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British cultureMarch 2020 marked the official end of the festival, but also the beginning of a longer-term commitment to celebrating the impact of this remarkable generation of émigrés under the Insiders/Outsiders umbrella

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Pioneering journalist Hella Pick in conversation with journalist Anne McElvoy

To mark the publication on 18 March of her long-awaited memoirs, <a href="https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/hella-pick-4/invisible-walls/9781474613767/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Invisible Walls,</a> pioneering journalist Hella Pick CBE, who came to the UK from Austria on a Kindertransport in 1939, will be in conversation with journalist Anne McElvoy, a regular contributor to The Economist, London Evening Standard, and the BBC.A trailblazer for women in journalism, Hella Pick arrived in Britain in 1939 as a child refugee from Austria. Over nearly four decades she covered the volatile global scene, first in West Africa, followed by America and long periods in Europe. In her thirty-five years with the Guardian she reported on the end of Empire in West Africa, the assassination of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King’s march from Selma to Montgomery, the Vietnam peace negotiation in Paris, the 1968 student revolt in France, the birth of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the closing stages of the Cold War. A request for coffee on board a Soviet ship anchored in Malta led to a chat with Mikhail Gorbachev. A request for an interview with Willy Brandt led to a personal friendship that enabled her to come to terms with Germany’s Nazi past.Invisible Walls - described by Philippe Sands as ‘a remarkable personal journey, by one of the great political correspondents of our world – eloquent, enlightening, exhilarating’- tells the dramatic story of how a Kindertransport survivor won the trust and sometimes the friendship of world leaders, and with them a wide range of remarkable men and women. It speaks frankly of personal heartache, of a struggle over her Jewish identity and of how, despite a gift for friendship and international recognition as a woman journalist, a continuing sense of personal insecurity has confronted her with a series of invisible walls.Image: Invisible Walls, bookcover (detail)<a href="https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/events/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Insiders/Outsiders online events</a> are free, but in order to help us continue our activities into next year and beyond, a donation of at least £5 per event would be hugely appreciated. To donate, <a href="https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/support-us/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">click here</a>.

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