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How popular culture erases the Jews from the Holocaust

The most celebrated Shoah fictions focus on the rare rescuers, fictional non-Jewish victims or sympathetic perpetrators. But you cannot love Jews if you refuse to understand what happened to them, and why

By Tanya Gold

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Scene from the movie Schindler's List. Liam Neeson (centre) as Oscar Schindler who 'enjoyed the war'. (Credit: Universal Pictures)

Poland

Auschwitz Museum ban Israeli flags from IDF delegation

By JC Reporter

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By Jake Wallis Simons

Is there any point arguing with those that compare aid drops in Gaza to Auschwitz?

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By Rob Rinder

Shabbat is the original detox from being constantly available

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The presidents of Israel and Poland, as well as ten former Hamas hostages including Eli Sharabi (centre), were among the crowds (Image: Getty)

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In pictures: Hostages and Holocaust survivors march through Auschwitz to mark Yom Hashoah

By Jacob Jaffa

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Hostage flags confiscated from Jewish group touring Auschwitz

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Ireland

Irish Taoiseach hits out at ‘false accusations’ of antisemitism following HMD row

By Ellie Grant

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The lessons of Auschwitz are being lost, Ron Lauder warns world

In his address at the 80th anniversary ceremony at the death camp, the Jewish leader references October 7 in a powerful wake-up call

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

January 28, 2025 13:09

President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder makes an address on behalf of the major donors of the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

The woman with two hearts who survived Auschwitz

When Fania Fainer was in the camp, a friend made her a birthday gift that she managed to preserve

By Heidi Kingstone

4 min read

January 27, 2025 16:05

The origami cloth heart made for Fania Fainer in Auschwitz

‘The Jewish community has been reborn’ says King Charles in Krakow

His Majesty also went to a community centre inspired by his conversation with a Holocaust survivor, which sits just miles from the site of the camp

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

January 27, 2025 15:41

Britain's King Charles III looks at belongings of people once deported to Auschwitz (Getty Images)

So that we never forget: Rare colourised photos of death camp liberation revealed

The images have been restored for the first time as part of a project to combat Holocaust denial

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

January 27, 2025 09:00

A survivor is escorted out of the gates of Penig concentration camp (Image: US National Archives/Spaceship Earth)

How the JC reported Auschwitz’s horror

Archive material reveals how liberation unfolded and the journalists who helped bring the horrors of the death camps to light

By Keren David

1 min read

January 27, 2025 09:00

Archive material has revealed how the JC covered the liberation of Auschwitz

‘I escaped death seven times. I don’t know why I survived’

A project by Claims Conference features the harrowing testimonies of 80 Auschwitz survivors on the anniversary of the camp’s liberation

By Eliana Jordan

9 min read

January 26, 2025 13:00

Bronia Brandman lights a Menorah candle during a Chanukah reception hosted by US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden in Washington, DC in 2022. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

By Dov Forman

Lily’s lesson? Shoah education is possible in a world of fake news

This Holocaust Memorial Day is the first without my incredible great-grandmother, Lily Ebert

3 min read

January 24, 2025 11:00

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 by Andrew Matthews / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW MATTHEWS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Auschwitz commandant’s home from Zone of Interest reclaimed for anti-extremism project

SS commandant’s home used in Oscar-winning film will be transformed into anti-hate hub

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

January 21, 2025 14:21

A guest of the Counter Extremism Project looks out at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum from the top floor of House 88, former home of the former Commandant of Auschwitz in September 2024. (Photo by Adam Trzcionka/Counter Extremism Project)

Survivors and descendants mark 80 years since liberation of Auschwitz

The ceremony took place at Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

January 21, 2025 10:54

Jewish Care Holocaust Survivors' Centre and Generation2Generation commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz 80th (Photo: Yakir Zur)

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Auschwitz

How popular culture erases the Jews from the Holocaust

Auschwitz Museum ban Israeli flags from IDF delegation

Is there any point arguing with those that compare aid drops in Gaza to Auschwitz?

Shabbat is the original detox from being constantly available

In pictures: Hostages and Holocaust survivors march through Auschwitz to mark Yom Hashoah

Hostage flags confiscated from Jewish group touring Auschwitz

Irish Taoiseach hits out at ‘false accusations’ of antisemitism following HMD row

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