Professor Yehuda Bauer discussed Nazi ideology in an address to a Holocaust Memorial Day meeting attended by 170 people at the London Jewish Cultural Centre in Golders Green on Wednesday.

The professor, who teaches Holocaust studies at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, was presented with an award by Yad Vashem UK chairman Simon Bentley.

A teenager’s antisemitic email to an online Jewish group has spurred his school into extending its Holocaust education programme.

The founders of a Toronto-based website, which alerts subscribers to bereavements, were shocked to see a message entitled “Nazis Rule!” declaring “Go and get locked up in those chambers you smelly big nose clowns!”

Respect Party politician Lee Jasper has used the upcoming Holocaust Memorial Day to mount an attack on Israel as a "racist oppressor".

Mr Jasper, a former equalities adviser to Ken Livingstone and an activist on race relations issues, made the comments about Israel and the Holocaust on his Facebook page.

An educational resource for secondary schools inspired by the visit of the England football squad to Auschwitz-Birkenau last year was launched on Monday by Football Association chairman David Bernstein.

A jointly funded collaboration between the FA and the Holocaust Educational Trust, it is seen as a different way of engaging pupils in Holocaust studies.

Sixth-formers participating in the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz scheme completed their programme by meeting members of Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre in Hendon.

As well as learning about survivors’ experiences during the Holocaust, the students heard how they had rebuilt their lives after the war.

The youngest Jew to be saved by Oskar Schindler has died at the age of 83.

In the 70 years since Leon Leyson was given a second chance by the heroic German businessman, he emigrated to America, served in the US army and carved out a career in teaching. Mr Leyson was married for 46 years and is survived by six grandchildren.