Colin Shindler

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Putin is trying to erase Stalin’s Jewish victims

The Russian leader is trying to alter history by sidelining his predecessor’s antisemitism

3 min read

Russian House of Soviets, Lenin on Moscow Square. St. Petersburg.

M61B7W Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, the South African Prime Minister, at Lancaster House, London.

‘Apartheid state’? Israel stood against racist South Africa in ’61

5 min read

28th September 1936: British fascist politician Oswald Mosley (1896 - 1980) speaking at a rally in Leeds. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Rosh Hashanah 1939 marked the start of unimaginable horrors

5 min read

Review: The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present

2 min read

Hitler almost fulfilled his dark dream of liquidating all Jews

80 years ago, the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union — with the aim of destroying as many Jews as possible in the process

5 min read

June 21, 2021 13:30

Hitler almost fulfilled his dark dream of liquidating all Jews

The Temple Mount is where religion and nationalism meet

It is a tinderbox waiitng to be ignited

2 min read

May 20, 2021 15:16

The Temple Mount is where religion and nationalism meet

All Jews have a moral duty to recognise Armenian genocide

President Biden has become the first president to use the word — but it is to some Israeli leaders’ shame that they have not

5 min read

April 30, 2021 11:06

All Jews have a moral duty to recognise Armenian genocide

The NHS's founder was an ardent Zionist

Colin Shindler examines Bevan's support for Israel

4 min read

April 11, 2021 13:51

20th June 1947: British Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan presenting a certificate to Nurse Johnson, one of the successful nurses of the County Nurses' Examination of the Middlesex County Council, at the Middlesex Guildhall, Westminster, London. (Photo by Monty Fresco/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Six decades ago, the face of evil was in the dock in Jerusalem

The Eichmann trial began sixty years ago. Colin Shindler looks at the reaction

4 min read

April 11, 2021 13:46

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial June 22, 1961 in Jerusalem. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and mugshot to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial ahead of Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day May 4, 2005 which this year also marks the 60th anniversary of the Nazi's World War II defeat in 1945. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images)

The defeat of Rommel in Egypt saved Palestine from the Nazis

Eighty years ago the outlook for Palestine, and so for Jews in the Middle East, was bleak with invasion seemingly inevitable, writes Colin Shindler

5 min read

March 19, 2021 11:43

The defeat of Rommel in Egypt saved Palestine from the Nazis

Review: Nuremberg - A personal record of the trial of the major Nazi war criminals

Airey Neave’s voice deserves to be heard across the years, writes Colin Shindler

2 min read

March 12, 2021 16:37

British Conservative politician Airey Neave (1916-1979), who was involved in the Nuremberg trials. Original Publication: People Disc - HH0350 (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Ordinary Soviet life of a perfect Purim personality

Emil Draitser's memoir provides a rare, vivid insight into the lives of ordinary Jews in the Soviet Union.

2 min read

February 26, 2021 16:03

Ordinary Soviet life of a perfect Purim personality

Russian Jewry divided: Putin or Navalny?

Jews face another dilemma during the country's latest political crisis

3 min read

January 28, 2021 15:02

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny delivers a speech during a demonstration in Moscow on September 29, 2019. - Thousands gathered in Moscow for a demonstration demanding the release of the opposition protesters prosecuted in recent months. Police estimated a turnout of 20,000 people at the Sakharov Avenue in central Moscow about half an hour after the start of the protest, which was authorised. The demonstrators chanted "let them go" and brandished placards demanding a halt to "repressions" of opposition protesters. (Photo by Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP) (Photo by YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

The march on the Knesset 69 years ago...

The storming of the Capitol Building reminds Colin Shindler of a protest outside the Knesset in 1952

3 min read

January 7, 2021 10:11

How the KGB laid the ground for the great Soviet exodus

By persecuting its Jews, the USSR further isolated itself and galvanised those seeking to escape to Israel

5 min read

December 30, 2020 11:41

How the KGB laid the ground for the great Soviet exodus

A journey to the Gulag and back

A memoir by the late Polish-born writer Julius Margolin, now published in English for the first time, details how he survived

5 min read

December 3, 2020 13:38

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Colin Shindler

Latest from Colin Shindler

Putin is trying to erase Stalin’s Jewish victims

‘Apartheid state’? Israel stood against racist South Africa in ’61

Rosh Hashanah 1939 marked the start of unimaginable horrors

Review: The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present

More from Colin Shindler

Hitler almost fulfilled his dark dream of liquidating all Jews

The Temple Mount is where religion and nationalism meet

All Jews have a moral duty to recognise Armenian genocide

The NHS's founder was an ardent Zionist

Six decades ago, the face of evil was in the dock in Jerusalem

The defeat of Rommel in Egypt saved Palestine from the Nazis

Review: Nuremberg - A personal record of the trial of the major Nazi war criminals

Ordinary Soviet life of a perfect Purim personality

Russian Jewry divided: Putin or Navalny?

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How the KGB laid the ground for the great Soviet exodus

A journey to the Gulag and back