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Daniel Finkelstein

How I learned to fill in the gaps in my family’s Shoah story

Even with the stash of records my relatives kept, I still found dead ends — then I realised that there are ways to use other people’s experiences to build on what knowledge I did have

By Daniel Finkelstein

3 min read

The railway tracks entering the main building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi death camp are pictured ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark visit in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 5, 2019. - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will honour Holocaust victims on December 6, 2019 with her first official visit to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a Nazi German killing factory where more than 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews, perished during World War II. (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine, Holocaust Ground Zero review: Unbearable but important watch

Ukraine, Holocaust Ground Zero review: Unbearable but important watch

2 min read

Why the descendants of one Jewish family destroyed by Holocaust are still living with the trauma

Why the descendants of one Jewish family destroyed by Holocaust are still living with the trauma

By Nicole Lampert

5 min read

Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler’s Bavarian lakeside villa transformed into hotel

Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler’s Bavarian lakeside villa transformed into hotel

3 min read

The Polish sculptor creating masterpieces inspired by places where terrified Jews hid during Holocaust

The Polish sculptor creating masterpieces inspired by places where terrified Jews hid during Holocaust

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation review

The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation review

By Daniel Snowman

3 min read

1943: Fire breaks out during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a Polish insurrection against the German forces who had occupied Poland at the start of World War II. By 1944 Warsaw was the centre of Polish resistance, but the army was forced to surrender on October 2nd 1944 under pressure from German air raids. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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Germany reveals plans for national memorial to remember Polish Jews who died in Holocaust

By Richard Percival

1 min read

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Josef Lewkowicz

By Josef Lewkowicz

I’m a Nazi hunter but I’m still haunted by my time in a camp

In an extract from ‘The Survivor’, the author describes his time as an inmate at Plaszow and his later return to visit the site

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August 24, 2023 15:53

I’m a Nazi hunter but I’m still haunted by my time in a camp

Jewish resistance hero's body identified 80 years after execution by Nazis

Bernard Luza was killed by a firing squad in 1943

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August 24, 2023 14:15

circa 1945: The wooden living quarters at the former German concentration camp in Vught, Holland. Amongst others, the camp now houses German civilians left homeless at the end of World War II. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Austria to convert Hitler's house into human rights centre

The house in Braunau am Inn where Hitler was born will house a police station as well

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August 22, 2023 09:23

1936: German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) discussing plans for a new administration building for the provincial government in Weimar, Germany.Second from the left is Hitler's architect Albert Speer (1905 - 1981). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

German AfD politician fined for comparing Covid vaccination to Kristallnacht

The far-right AfD politician compared the terror campaign in 1938 with Germany's Covid-19 vaccination campaign

By Richard Percival

1 min read

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August 21, 2023 18:18

German AfD politician fined for comparing Covid vaccination to Kristallnacht

Meet the Muslim and Jew who saved each others lives in conflicts decades apart

A new film tells the incredible story of two friends who risked their lives

By Anthea Gerrie

3 min read

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August 17, 2023 16:26

Meet the Muslim and Jew who saved each others lives in conflicts decades apart

Former Trump advisor blames Jews for their own deportations to Auschwitz

Christian nationalist Michael Flynn suggested mothers were complicit in handing over their young children to go on trains to Auschwitz

By Rosa Doherty

1 min read

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August 15, 2023 12:51

BRUNSWICK, OH - APRIL 21: Michael Flynn, former U.S. National Security advisor to former President Trump, speaks at a campaign event for U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel on April 21, 2022 at Mapleside Farms in Brunswick, Ohio. Mandel, a former state treasurer, is running for senate against a crowded Republican field that includes Mike Gibbons, Jane Timken, Matt Dolan, Mark Pukita, Neil Patel and JD Vance, who was recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump. (Photo by Dustin Franz/Getty Images)

Tributes paid to 'remarkable' Radlett Holocaust survivors killed in crash

Sylvia Bruck and her husband Thomas died after their car hit a tree

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August 14, 2023 17:15

Tributes paid to 'remarkable' Radlett Holocaust survivors killed in crash

Holocaust books set on fire at famous German memorial

Jewish groups have branded the incident 'despicable'

By Richard Percival

1 min read

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August 14, 2023 15:23

Holocaust books set on fire at famous German memorial

Huge £250k grant will let Holocaust survivors’ voices 'live on'

The Fed’s My Voice project has received just over £246,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund

By William Rome

1 min read

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August 8, 2023 16:26

Huge £250k grant will let Holocaust survivors’ voices 'live on'

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