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Animated biopic of Holocaust survivor launches with Parliament screening

Ivor Perl worried film might ‘make the Holocaust into Mickey Mouse,’ but said it has made his experience accessible ‘for a whole new generation’

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Baroness Luciana Berger, Karen Pollock, Ivor Perl and Zoom Rockman at the launch of the animation Survivor in the House of Lords on Wednesday (Photo: HET)

A siddur found inside the Ghetto Fighters’ House in Będzin (Credit: Facebook/Fundacja Brama Cukermana)

Poland

Star of David armband and 1930s siddur found hidden in former Ghetto building

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Books

Stay Alive by Ian Buruma review: ‘a meticulously researched war history’

By Robert Low

3 min read

Words for horror: lyricists Shmerke Kaczerginski (far left) and Abraham Sutzkever (second left) with two other survivors in a portrait taken in Moscow after the war

Books

The songs of anguish they wrote and sang in the Polish ghettos and camps

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

Police officers from around the world attend the March for the Living (GCLETE/Paul Goldenberg)

Holocaust

The former cop who teaches world’s police about the Shoah

By Lianne Kolirin

3 min read

Harriman making the controversial remarks (Image: X)

Reform UK

Southbank Centre boss denies comparing Reform UK’s success to build-up to Holocaust

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

local elections

Holocaust-denying councillor elected in Tower Hamlets despite Aspire Party suspension

By Ben Conway

2 min read

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Holocaust survivor and acclaimed psychologist Edith Eger dies aged 98

Her mission in life, in her own words, was to help others ‘heal and thrive’

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

April 28, 2026 14:12

By Lottie Cannon

March of the Living: our generation will soon be the last to hear these stories directly from Holocaust survivors

When that happens, it will be up to us to make sure they are still understood, still told properly, and still felt in the way they deserve to be. That is what this experience left me with

3 min read

April 24, 2026 15:08

The author (third from left) at the March of the Living (Image: courtesy of Lottie Cannon)

‘You will not force us into ghettos again’: Israeli ministers hit out at Europe on eve of Yom HaShoah

Prime Minister Netanyahu said the continent was ‘afflicted by profound moral weakness’, while Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on the German chancellor to ‘bow his head and apologise a thousand times’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

April 14, 2026 09:58

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Yom HaShoah at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 14, 2026 (Getty Images)

By Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer’s Yom HaShoah message: I will not look away from antisemitism

The Prime Minister writes for the JC ahead of the memorial day

1 min read

April 13, 2026 15:17

Remembrance and Memorial Day candle (Getty Images)

Death camp survivor’s haunting sketches hidden for decades to go on display

Images documenting Nazi war crimes created by French resistance fighter Marcel Roux and given to a US Army doctor were concealed for decades

By JC Reporter

2 min read

April 13, 2026 12:00

Death camp survivor’s haunting sketches hidden for decades to go on display

By Karen Pollock

Yom HaShoah UK 2026: Remembering the past, confronting antisemitism now

The uncomfortable truth is that the Holocaust was not an aberration, but a destination. Today, we find ourselves once again at the early stages of a similar path

3 min read

April 13, 2026 11:11

The scene after four Hatzola ambulances were set on fire next to Machzike Hadath Synagogue, on March 23, 2026, in the Golders Green area of London (Images: Getty)

Women step into the top job at the Wiener Library for first time

The Holocaust archive collection was originally set up in the early 1930s to chronicle rising antisemitism

By Alma Green

1 min read

March 12, 2026 12:35

New co-directors of the Wiener Library Dr Barbara Warnock (left) and Dr Christine Schmidt (Photo: Adam Soller)

Community leaders abandon exemption that allowed German Jews to avoid military service

Move follows new legislation revising rules on military service

By Rob Hyde

2 min read

March 5, 2026 16:27

German Bundeswehr troops during ceremony to mark the expansion of Germany's Lithuania military commitment (Photo by Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images)

Peter Kien stowed his art in a suitcase before the Nazis murdered him – now it’s finally in safe hands

The Wiener Library has just acquired 681 drawings, poems and letters by Kien, whose work has been recovered after an 80-year journey

By Eliana Jordan

5 min read

February 11, 2026 13:13

One of the drawings from Theresienstadt found in Kien's suitcase

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Holocaust

Animated biopic of Holocaust survivor launches with Parliament screening

Star of David armband and 1930s siddur found hidden in former Ghetto building

Stay Alive by Ian Buruma review: ‘a meticulously researched war history’

The songs of anguish they wrote and sang in the Polish ghettos and camps

The former cop who teaches world’s police about the Shoah

Southbank Centre boss denies comparing Reform UK’s success to build-up to Holocaust

Holocaust-denying councillor elected in Tower Hamlets despite Aspire Party suspension

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