Vera Schaufeld graduated from Southlands College in 1950 where she received a certificate in Education. She was born in 1930 in Prague and at the age of nine had to move to England due to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. She was one of the 10,000 children transported out of Europe by the Kindertransport, a rescue effort organised by British Humanitarian Nicholas Winton. Whilst studying Southlands College she became the college representative to the National Union of Students and trained as an English teacher. After becoming a teacher she spent time in Israel and met her husband Avram. She has been heavily involved in Holocaust education and the establishment of the Holocaust centre and museum. Vera received a MBE for services to Holocaust Education and in 2019 was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Roehampton.