My week at the Wiener Holocaust Library in December 2025 was incredibly rewarding. The fellowship combined research with the opportunity to meet Library staff and gain insight into their collections care, cataloguing practices, digitisation workflows and digital preservation strategy. The staff were very welcoming and generous with their time, creating valuable opportunities to exchange ideas and discuss shared practices across our institutions. It was confidence-building to discover that peers at a more established institution share similar approaches and sector challenges, both archives specific and Holocaust specific. I've built contacts for future support and potential collaboration, which is great as a lone archivist working in a small organisation. In terms of archival practice, I gained specific insight into digitisation and digital preservation workflows that will directly inform our work at Holocaust Centre North. The conversations around sector-wide concerns—for instance the opportunities and threats posed by AI and rapidly changing technologies—were very helpful. The fellowship also allowed me the time to reflect strategically on the development of our Centre's archive and service as well as how our regionally focused organisation can complement the work of a larger institution that has a much wider breadth of collections. Having dedicated research time—and in such a beautiful reading room—was truly inspiring and a privilege. My research focused on identifying links between Library collections and individuals or families represented in Holocaust Centre North's archive i.e. those with connections to the north of England. I also worked to expand my knowledge of several historical topics: primarily the Kindertransport scheme and those children’s experiences, as well as the tribunal process for interning ‘enemy aliens’, the Kitchener Camp, the experience of German prisoners-of-war in the UK, and the British Jewish defence leagues and wider anti-fascist movements in the immediate post-war period. I examined the David Makofski papers within the Leeds Jewish Refugee Committee collection in detail. This revealed numerous records of Kindertransport refugees whose personal papers and testimonies our Centre holds, as well as new names of individuals and organisations worth researching and potentially contacting, including the York Refugee Committee and various guarantors and employers in Leeds and Huddersfield. The Makofski papers deepened my understanding of the day-to-day challenges and limitations faced by people administering the Kindertransport scheme, for instance the high proportion of rejected applications, and placement issues when boys were unhappy and wanted to move. I also accessed the Kinder memoirs in the Reunion of Kindertransport (ROK) collection for those with ties to northern locations. This was with a specific view to better understand their experiences and to identify hostels in north of England, some of which remain barely known and under-researched. I found addresses and information about hostels in Harrogate, Tynemouth, Leeds, Blackpool, Middlesbrough and Manchester. This research will enable me to cross-reference findings with our Centre's collections and share discoveries with collection donor families—many of whom are second- and third-generation survivors keen to broaden their understanding of the historical context surrounding their relatives’ experiences. Overall, my newly gained knowledge and deepened understanding has made me better equipped to respond to research enquiries and to assist students, researchers and collection donors in their requests. I’m really looking forward to sharing my discoveries with donor families and following up on the research leads and potential contacts identified.