My friend Louise London, who has died of cancer aged 78, had an unshakable commitment to human rights, which she pursued as a solicitor on behalf of the disadvantaged, as a historian and as a volunteer team member helping asylum seekers.
Her acclaimed book Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948 (2000) remains, in the words of the historian Tony Kushner, “the standard book on British governmental responses to the refugee crisis, the Holocaust and after”.
