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Gloria Tessler

Gloria Tessler

Gloria Tessler is obituaries editor at the Jewish Chronicle.

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Freddie Knoller: tireless campaigner for Shoah survivors who had helped the French Resistance blow up a Nazi train before he was arrested and sent to Auschwitz

Like many who survived, Knoller was insistent that the Holocaust should not be forgotten and addressed schools on his experiences

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Freddie Knoller: tireless campaigner for Shoah survivors who had helped the French Resistance blow up a Nazi train before he was arrested and sent to Auschwitz

Migration crisis on the border with Belarus

Ukraine’s anguish reminds us of Israel’s story

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Obituary: Ladislaus Löb

Obituary: Ladislaus Löb

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Migration crisis on the border with Belarus

These past few days I have been thinking of my grandmother

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Obituary: Gary Waldhorn

Actor whose roles ranged from sitcom cynic to Shakespeare’s beleaguered king

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February 25, 2022 00:00

Obituary: Gary Waldhorn

Will Licoricia of Winchester prove another hostage to fortune?

With public statues, one generation's reverence often becomes the dishonour of the next

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February 15, 2022 11:48

WINCHESTER, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is seen at the bronze sculpture of the influential Jewish financier Licoricia of Winchester and her son, Asher, after it is unveiled outside The Arc, on February 10, 2022 in Winchester, England. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Meet the descendants who help Shoah survivors to release their demons

A pioneering programme offers the younger generation the skills to tell survivors’ stories with empathy and compassion.

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January 20, 2022 17:21

Meet the descendants who help Shoah survivors to release their demons

The betrayal of Anne Frank is a double tragedy

A new book claims that the Franks were betrayed by a fellow Jew

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January 18, 2022 14:31

BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 09: A detail of the diary of the wax figure of Anne Frank and their hideout reconstruction is unveiled at Madame Tussauds on March 9, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Is Bambi really a foretelling of the Holocaust?

According to Professor Jack Zipes, the Disney film is "stupid" and destroys the real message

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December 29, 2021 10:04

Wild, native, Red Deer hind or female, stood in rainy Autumn weather in the colourful and beautiful Glen Strathfarrar, Highlands of Scotland. Facing camera. Space for copy. Horizontal.

Obituary: Lionel Blair

Inner rhythm of a razzle-dazzle dance man who gave his all for a twirl

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December 17, 2021 00:00

Obituary: Lionel Blair

Passing the flame to our children's children

The children of Holocaust survivors are taking on the job of Shoah education

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October 5, 2021 09:27

YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 23: School children light candles as 600 candles are lit in a Star of David set out on the floor of the Chapter House of York Minster as part of a commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day on January 23, 2020 in York, England. The ceremony in the Minster is part of events in the UK and internationally marking Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27. This year marks the 75th anniversary since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945 which was the largest Nazi death camp. The Holocaust genocide took place during World War II in Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany where aided by its collaborators they systematically murdered some six million European Jews. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Christian Boltansky

Conceptual artist who evoked the Holocaust through sound, light and memory

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September 3, 2021 12:00

2G7KTX9 File photo taken in 2010 of French Artist Christian Boltanski at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. Christian Boltanski, one of France's top contemporary artists whose multimedia works probed the meaning of mortality and memory, has died aged 76. Boltanski often mixed banal daily objects with photographs, videos and sculpture, while at other times creating monumental installations. Photo by Philipp Hugues Bonan/Alamo/ABACAPRESS.COM

Jonathan Davies

Intrepid Liberal Democrat activist and Israel supporter, dedicated to open,united society

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August 27, 2021 12:00

Jonathan Davies

Marcel Stellman

Prolific songwriter-lyricist who brought the TV game show Countdown to the UK

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July 30, 2021 12:00

Marcel Stellman

The don, the Deutsche Bank and the shock revelations of its Nazi past

The don, the Deutsche Bank and the shock revelations of its Nazi past

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June 4, 2021 12:00

2F14958 Professor Jonathan Steinberg from the Univ. of Pennsylvania will be a featured lecturer at One Day University, February 19, 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Charles Fox/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT/Sipa USA)

Robin Spiro

Renaissance man who opened up a world of Jewish culture and identity

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April 2, 2021 13:29

Robin Spiro

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