Holocaust

Immortalised in bronze: the face of death camp survivor who transformed child psychotherapy

Dr Lydia Tischler sits as latest in a series of busts by sculptress Frances Segelman of Jews who emerged from the Holocaust to settle in Britain

By Nicole Lampert

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Survivor Dr Lydia Tischler, who received an MBE earlier this month, here sitting for her bust by the sculptor Frances Segelman

Jewish Kindertransport refugees from Germany and Austria, at a camp in Dovercourt Bay near Harwich, 11th January 1939 (Image: Getty)

By Alex Hearn

The comforting myth of Britain as a safe haven for Jews clouds our immigration debate

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Scarlett Johansson has become the highest grossing actor in cinema history (Image: Getty)

Film

Scarlett Johansson reveals shock after being asked to drop Holocaust storyline from Eleanor the Great

By JC Reporter

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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski addresses a joint press conference on a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle of France, Germany and Poland with Ukraine's foreign minister in Warsaw, on September 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

Yad Vashem

Poland summons Israeli ambassador in diplomatic row over Yad Vashem tweet

By Ben Conway

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X owner Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2025 (Getty Images)

Twitter

France investigating X’s Grok AI bot after it repeated Holocaust denial

By Jacob Jaffa

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Grzegorz Braun holding a fire extinguisher after putting out a Chanukah menorah placed in the parliament lobby on December 12, 2023 (Getty Images)

Auschwitz

Far-right Polish lawmaker says ‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews’ in speech outside Auschwitz

By Jamie Shapiro

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Henrik Gawkowski, who drove trains carrying Jews to Treblinka, in Shoah (Why Not Productions)

By Tanya Gold

Lanzmann’s Shoah was so well done many find it near-impossible to watch

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Thousands attend annual AJEX parade to honour the Jews who served in the World Wars

The Jewish community came together on Sunday to remember their fallen soldiers and to show resilience

By Jamie Shapiro

4 min read

November 16, 2025 19:03

The annual AJEX remembrance day was held on November 16 (Image: Justin Grainge)

The BBC is like an ‘alcoholic’ that won’t admit its ‘chronic’ problem, Michael Gove tells JC event

The former cabinet minister, now editor of the Spectator, discussed BBC bias and the rise in antisemitism with JC editor Daniel Schwammenthal

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

November 13, 2025 16:18

Lord Gove, (left), spoke to JC editor Daniel Schwammenthal, (right), at Westminster's Western Marble Arch Synagogue

Starmer pays tribute to Mervyn Kersh and Manfred Goldberg at the start of PMQs

The prime minister said that Manfred Goldberg’s memory meant ‘we must ensure that “never again” means never again’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

November 12, 2025 17:10

Mervyn Kersh, 100, with a photo of himself as a young soldier.

Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

Members of ‘Ruth’s film club’ told the JC that the decision to end her life at the Swiss clinic was hers, not that of her husband

By Elisa Bray

3 min read

November 5, 2025 14:09

Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

Yad Vashem recovers names of five million Holocaust victims in ‘historic’ milestone

Researchers at Israel’s official memorial to Shoah victims have worked for decades to piece together the identities of millions of Jews killed

By Hannah Sugars

1 min read

November 5, 2025 13:05

The ceiling in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (Photo: Getty)

Israeli woman arrested after allegedly burying Holocaust-survivor mother in garden

Sharon Kantor is accused of failing to report the death so that she could continue to receive her mother’s social security and Shoah reparation cheques

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

October 20, 2025 12:33

Police investigating in the garden of the Karmiel home (Image: Israeli police)

Surgeon who said not enough Jewish ‘rats’ were killed in Auschwitz is struck off

Manoj Sen made the comments just three days after the October 7 massacre

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

October 10, 2025 10:50

Manoj Sen has been struck off the UK Medical Register for antisemitism (Image: X/ Jack Unfurled)

By Karen Pollock

Obsession with Israel has crossed a line – and built up to Thursday’s attack

When the world’s only Jewish state is wrongly singled out as uniquely malevolent and when its very existence is questioned, there are consequences

3 min read

October 5, 2025 10:28

Armed Police officers stand by emergency vehicles outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025, following an attack at the synagogue. (Image: Getty)

Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner was pushed to attending Swiss suicide clinic by husband, close friend says

Friend of the couple, who died together at a Swiss clinic, has claimed she was ‘totally under control’ of her husband

By JC Reporter

4 min read

September 28, 2025 09:34

Actor Ruth Posner came to the UK at 16-years-old after escaping the Warsaw Ghetto (Image: FaceBook/Ruth Posner)

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Holocaust

Immortalised in bronze: the face of death camp survivor who transformed child psychotherapy

The comforting myth of Britain as a safe haven for Jews clouds our immigration debate

Scarlett Johansson reveals shock after being asked to drop Holocaust storyline from Eleanor the Great

Poland summons Israeli ambassador in diplomatic row over Yad Vashem tweet

France investigating X’s Grok AI bot after it repeated Holocaust denial

Far-right Polish lawmaker says ‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews’ in speech outside Auschwitz

Lanzmann’s Shoah was so well done many find it near-impossible to watch

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