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Manfred’s story reminds us that even after the greatest evil, goodness can endure

Manfred Goldberg MBE was admired by all who met him and heard his testimony

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Manfred Goldberg is featured in HET's Testimony360, a free digital education programme (Photo: HET)
Armed Police officers stand by emergency vehicles outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025, following an attack at the synagogue. (Image: Getty)

Obsession with Israel has crossed a line – and built up to Thursday’s attack

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The train tracks to former Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camp with wooden plates with prays and wishes during the 35th March of the Living on April 18, 2023. (Image: Getty)

Even 80 years after liberation, Holocaust education continues to matter profoundly

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Gena and Norman Turgel at their wedding

On the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, I remember the ‘bride of Belsen’

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Holocaust Memorial Day shows how important our survivors’ stories are

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January 29, 2025 16:11
Harry Olmer survived the Buchenwald concentration camp and the infamous 'death marches' and is now a beloved member of his community in the UK (Image: Alamy)

Holocaust Memorial Day should only be about the Shoah

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January 8, 2025 14:19
"Post October 7, it feels even more critical that the Jew hatred of the past is understood" says HET chief executive Karen Pollock (Photo: HMDT/Grainge Photography)

Lily refused to let a chance to tell the truth slip by

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October 19, 2024 23:02
Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert (L) stands with her her great-grandson Dov Forman as she poses with her medal after being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) following an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, on January 31, 2023. (Photo: Getty Images)

Courage gives us a glimmer of hope in the darkness

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September 19, 2024 10:04
Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg BEM chats to Sir Keir Starmer at the Holocaust Educational Trust's annual dinner (Photo: the Holocaust Educational Trust)

AI means voices of Holocaust survivors will live on

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June 20, 2024 12:13
Students at Sacred Heart Catholic School participating in a Testimony 360 lesson, a new interactive learning programme for delivering Holocaust education in UK schools created by the Holocaust Educational Trust (Photo: handout)

This Yom HaShoah calls for extra strength

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April 26, 2024 13:27
German pianist Igor Levit plays a yellow piano in Berlin in support of Israeli pianist Alon Ohel taken hostage by Hamas

The Prince of Wales has reminded us that the Jewish community is not alone

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March 5, 2024 15:06
The Prince of Wales during a visit to the Western Marble Arch Synagogue, where he joined a conversation with young Ambassadors of the Holocaust Educational Trust (Picture by Andrew Palace / Kensington Palace)

The Holocaust did not start with gas chambers

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January 25, 2024 14:15
Rishi Sunak speaks via a pre-recorded broadcast during a Holocaust Memorial day event at Guildhall on January 24, 2024 (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

During Kristallnacht, the Jews were defenceless. 85 years on, we can defend ourselves from hate

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November 9, 2023 16:07
2PH7YJ9 The Ruined Ohel Yaakov synagogue in Munich. Kristallnacht was a nationwide pogrom that was organised and carried out by the nazi Party on the 9th November 1938. Shops and synagogues were destroyed and people humiliated and beaten while the police looked on, or even helped. Though the amount of damage and the number of people attacked was quite small, the fact that it was completely unopposed showed the Nazis that they could really start in on the Jews and, as such, is one of the major milestones on the way to The Holocaust. https://commons.wiki

80 years on from the Holocaust, it is the young who are our hope

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September 14, 2023 14:11
Two lit shabbat candles in silver candlesticks

Ben Helfgott was a tireless campaigner for Holocaust education and my hero

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June 16, 2023 11:40
Holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott holds a memorial candle as he stands on the Millennium Bridge in central London on January 27, 2013 during an event marking Holocaust Memorial Day. AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

'Special club' is where Shoah survivors found their family

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May 17, 2023 13:48
45 AID 2023 Dinner 13473. Photo John Rifkin
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