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By Maya Orbach

I was too scared to ask my grandfather about the Holocaust and when I finally did, it was too late

Saba survived the ghetto, forced labour and Buchenwald concentration camp, but dementia took away his memory

5 min read

January 27, 2023 11:22

I was too scared to ask my grandfather about the Holocaust and when I finally did, it was too late

By Karen Pollock

Farewell letter from Auschwitz reminds us why we remember

Writing in the shadow of a gas chamber, Chaim Herman penned his final goodbye to his wife, knowing that he would not live to see her again

1 min read

January 27, 2023 10:50

Farewell letter from Auschwitz reminds us why we remember

MPs condemn antisemitism and fake news in Holocaust Memorial Day debate

Politicians also paid tribute to survivor Zigi Shipper, who died earlier this month

By Felix Pope

3 min read

January 26, 2023 18:50

MPs condemn antisemitism and fake news in Holocaust Memorial Day debate

Survivor shares testimony in Parliament as MPs mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle hosted survivors of three genocides in his residence before lighting a candle for the six million Jewish lives lost, and those lost to genocides since

By Ben Bloch

4 min read

January 26, 2023 18:46

Survivor shares testimony in Parliament as MPs mark Holocaust Memorial Day

By Janine Webber

How I survived the Shoah and why I share my story

Janine Webber explains why later generations must learn that despite our differences, it is our humanity that should bind us together

2 min read

January 26, 2023 18:43

How I survived the Shoah and why I share my story

The music that tells the story of a three-year-old refugee girl

Former Guardian journalist Jessica Shepherd is adapting the famous castaway radio format for Holocaust survivors - so which songs would they choose?

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

January 26, 2023 15:28

The music that tells the story of a three-year-old refugee girl

The boy used by the Nazis to conceal truth of Holocaust

Survivor Gidon Lev recalls how he was co-opted into a Nazi propaganda exercise aimed at concealing the true aim of the Final Solution

By Felix Pope

2 min read

January 26, 2023 13:04

The boy used by the Nazis to conceal truth of Holocaust

By Olivia Marks-Woldman

The simple truth of the ten stages of genocide

American scholar Gregory H Stanton outlined how the horrific process develops - and insisted at each stage it can be stopped

3 min read

January 26, 2023 11:41

The simple truth of the ten stages of genocide

Olympian veterans in Italian Holocaust Memorial Day run

Shaul Ladany, 86, who survived Bergen-Belsen and the Munich Olympic massacre, and 10,000m gold medallist Alberto Cova will feature in 'Run for Mem'

By Julie Carbonara

1 min read

January 26, 2023 11:35

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY CHARLY WEGMAN Israeli race walker Shaul Ladany, a sporting champion who escaped a Nazi concentration camp and survived the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, sits in front of his trophy cabinet during an interview with AFP at his home in Omer, a quiet suburb of the southern desert town of Beersheva, on April 30, 2012. To some, Israeli race walker Shaul Ladany is the ultimate survivor. This year, Ladany turned 76, but he has hardly slowed down. He celebrated the same way he does every birthday -- by walking his new age in kilometres. AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Government accused of 'diluting' meaning of Holocaust with Westminster memorial plans

Ballads to give hope in a Year Eight classroom

DNA test company donates 2500 kits to help Shoah survivors track down family

Dame Joanna Lumley and Holocaust survivors light candles in Piccadilly Circus

Welsh Secretary 'honoured' to meet survivors and shul-goers during Cardiff visit

Chief Rabbi pays tribute to 'beacon of light' Zigi Shipper in HMD message

Scottish students get a lesson in Shoah survival

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Government accused of 'diluting' meaning of Holocaust with Westminster memorial plans

Ballads to give hope in a Year Eight classroom

DNA test company donates 2500 kits to help Shoah survivors track down family

Dame Joanna Lumley and Holocaust survivors light candles in Piccadilly Circus

Welsh Secretary 'honoured' to meet survivors and shul-goers during Cardiff visit

Chief Rabbi pays tribute to 'beacon of light' Zigi Shipper in HMD message

Scottish students get a lesson in Shoah survival

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I was too scared to ask my grandfather about the Holocaust and when I finally did, it was too late

Farewell letter from Auschwitz reminds us why we remember

MPs condemn antisemitism and fake news in Holocaust Memorial Day debate

Survivor shares testimony in Parliament as MPs mark Holocaust Memorial Day

How I survived the Shoah and why I share my story

The music that tells the story of a three-year-old refugee girl

The boy used by the Nazis to conceal truth of Holocaust

The simple truth of the ten stages of genocide

Olympian veterans in Italian Holocaust Memorial Day run