Holocaust

Ballads to give hope in a Year Eight classroom

When I asked my 22 pupils to write stories in the style of the popular 19th century poster format, five of them presented tales about the Holocaust

By Emma Shevah

2 min read

Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 16, 2023, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** יד ושם מוזיאון שואה השואה יום השואה זיכרון מבקרים ירושלים

Theatre

The cycling hero who saved Italian Jews from the Holocaust

By Karen Glaser

3 min read

Anne Frank

Man arrested for projecting Holocaust denial message on Anne Frank House

By Tash Mosheim

2 min read

Conservative Party

Andrew Bridgen expelled from Tory Party for comparing Covid jabs to Holocaust

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko, Ralph Amoussou as Paul Kandjo, Lucas Englander as Albert Hirschmann, Gillian Jacobs as Mary-Jayne Gold, Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry and Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove in Transatlantic, Courtesy of Netflix © 2023

TV review: Transatlantic - Allo, Allo, this true story gets it all wrong

By Josh Howie

2 min read

Music

Dynamic conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya is leading from the front

By Jessica Duchen

5 min read

Theatre

Me and You: ‘I wrote this part for Maureen; decades later she’s playing it’

By Nicole Lampert

5 min read

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Obituary: Zdenka Fantlová

Fred Astaire’s song You Are My Lucky Star and a tin ring gave Shoah survivor the will to live

By Julie Carbonara

3 min read

April 20, 2023 12:26

The true meaning of freedom

The Warsaw ghetto uprising took place on erev Pesach 80 years ago. What did we learn?

By Eli Abt

3 min read

April 17, 2023 14:48

A group of Jewish civilians being held at gunpoint by German SS troops after being forced out of a bunker where they were sheltering during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in German-occupied Poland, World War II, 19th April - 16th May 1943. The photograph is from an official report from SS and Police Leader JÃ¼rgen Stroop to SS commander Heinrich Himmler, entitled 'Es gibt keinen jÃ¼dischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!' ('There is no Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Any more!"). The SS man on the right is SS-RottenfÃ¼hrer Josef BlÃ¶sche, who was executed for war crimes, in East Germany in 1969. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My mother was a fantasist. Schindler’s List helped me understand who she really was

Max Friedman, the son of two Holocaust survivors, was reluctant to see Steven Spielberg’s film when it came out in 1993. But when he did, it changed his life

By Karen Glaser

4 min read

April 14, 2023 09:58

My mother was a fantasist. Schindler’s List helped me understand who she really was

How the Yellow Candle Project keeps the flame burning for Shoah victims

Two German Jews, six decades apart in age, are among those remembered in Maccabi GB’s campaign

By Gloria Tessler

1 min read

April 14, 2023 09:56

How the Yellow Candle Project keeps the flame burning for Shoah victims

‘Papa was a survivor. We knew nothing’: the story that inspired Jeannette Sorrell's music

Ahead of a special concert, baroque ensemble Apollo’s Fire conductor recalls how her father hid a secret from his family

By Jessica Duchen

6 min read

April 12, 2023 11:14

Apollo's Fire, Jeanette Sorrell. Photo by Roger Mastroianni

Jewish Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz dies at 103

The Havard Law graduate also played a key role in securing $822 million of Holocaust reparations from the West German government

By JC Reporter

3 min read

April 10, 2023 16:54

Jewish Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz dies at 103

By Noah Max

Why I stand by my opera version of Striped Pyjamas

Critics of the book misunderstand that it’s a parable, not based on real life

3 min read

April 4, 2023 16:16

Why I stand by my opera version of Striped Pyjamas

University admits it should have stopped destruction of Jewish Nazi victims's remains

Admission came as public memorial marking burial of remains of possibly 100 other victims took place

By Rob Hyde

2 min read

March 30, 2023 13:49

University admits it should have stopped destruction of Jewish Nazi victims's remains

Time is 'running out' to rescue millions of Holocaust items looted from Jews

The government's Holocaust envoy Eric Pickles said bans on sale are not universally enforced

By Felix Pope

1 min read

March 29, 2023 10:52

Visitors look at paintings during an exhibition of artworks that belonged to Jewish families and were looted by the Nazis during the World War II, commonly referred to by the acronym "MNR"(Musees Nationaux Recuperation - National Museums Recovery), at the Palais Rohan Museum, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on October 22, 2022. - An exhibition in Strasbourg brings together twenty-seven works repatriated in 1945, in the hope of being returned one day to their owners or to their descendants. At the end of the Second World War, 61,000 works and art objects from France were recovered in Germany and Austria, and more than 45,000 were quickly returned to their owners, while others were sold by the State. - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by Frederick FLORIN / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Marie JULIEN - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Holocaust

Ballads to give hope in a Year Eight classroom

The cycling hero who saved Italian Jews from the Holocaust

Man arrested for projecting Holocaust denial message on Anne Frank House

Andrew Bridgen expelled from Tory Party for comparing Covid jabs to Holocaust

TV review: Transatlantic - Allo, Allo, this true story gets it all wrong

Dynamic conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya is leading from the front

Me and You: ‘I wrote this part for Maureen; decades later she’s playing it’

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