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History of Nursing Lecture: Jewish refugees and their nursing lives in WW2

From enemy alien to valued worker: Jewish refugees and their nursing lives during the Second World War. Following the fall of France, all those Jewish women who had fled Nazi oppression and sought work as nurses in Britain, were dismissed from their hospital positions. Fears of fifth columnists and a lack of understanding of the position of Jewish refugees led to increasingly draconian measures against them, culminating in the internment of some on the Isle of Man. The Annual RCN History of Nursing Forum lecture by Dr Jane Brooks explores the experiences and feelings of refugee nurses. They were designated ‘enemy aliens’, dismissed and interned, only to be invited back into nursing a few months later. Brooks exposes the opportunism of the Government and nursing profession as more nurses were needed to care for the sick and injured and the refugees' growing sense of worth as they supported the Allied war effort against the Nazis. She considers the young women’s nursing wartime work, as they re-evaluated their lives from victims of a murderous regime to valued members of a vital war-time profession. This event was held in June 2025.