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Theatre review - The End of The Night: Himmler, the chillingly reasonable dinner guest

Ben Brown’s fly-on-the wall play imagines what passed between the top Nazi and the Swedish representative of the World Jewish Congress when they met in April 1945

By John Nathan

2 min read

Park Theatre and Original Theatre present the World Premiere of The End of the Night By Ben Brown Directed by Alan Strachan OLIVIA BERNSTONE I JEANNE BOMMEZJIN BEN CAPLAN I NORBERT MASUR RICHARD CLOTHIER I HEINRICH HIMMLER MICHAEL LUMSDEN I FELIX KERSTEN AUDREY PALMER I ELISABETH LUBE WRITER I BEN BROWN DIRECTOR I ALAN STRACHAN SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER I MICHAEL PAVELKA LIGHTING DESIGNER I JASON TAYLOR SOUND DESIGNER I GREGORY CLARKE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR I TOM BRAIN PRODUCTION MANAGER I TAMMY ROSE PRODUCERS I DANIEL COOPER & TOM HACKNEY PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR I CHARLOTTE HOLDER COMPANY STAGE MANAGER I LAUREN BARCLAY ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER I JEFFREY HARMER STAGE MANAGEMENT INTERN I ALEX JAOUEN

Austria

Holocaust victims’ relatives confront the past in Vienna

By Liam Hoare

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Holocaust

The best-read book of the 20th century: the extraordinary story of Anne Frank's Diary

By Jenni Frazer

5 min read

Former Nazi concentration camp guard Josef Schuetz hides his face behind a folder as he arrives on June 28, 2022 at a gym used as a makeshift courtroom in Brandenburg an der Havel, eastern Germany, where his verdict was spoken. - The court gave its verdict in the trial of the 101-year-old man, the oldest person so far to be charged with complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust. Josef Schuetz, accused of being complicit in the murder of 3,518 Soviet prisoners of war at the concentration camp Sachsenhausen during World War II, was sentenced to five years in prison. (Photo by Adam BERRY / AFP) (Photo by ADAM BERRY/AFP via Getty Images)

Germany

Manhunt for ‘many dozens’ of surviving Nazi criminals

By Rob Hyde

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18th March 1939: Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII (1876 - 1958) on the papal throne. (Photo by G. Felici/Keystone/Getty Images)

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How the pope failed the Jews in the Holocaust

By Julie Carbonara

4 min read

Holocaust

101-year-old SS guard sentenced for war crimes in German court

By Rob Hyde

1 min read

The Vatican

Vatican to release WW2 files including unanswered Jewish pleas for help to the Catholic church

By Josh Kaplan

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Auschwitz accuses Russia of using faked museum pictures as propaganda

Russian state agencies posted manipulated images of anti-Russian stickers at the camp

By Josh Kaplan

1 min read

June 26, 2022 09:27

ORANIENBURG, GERMANY - JANUARY 27: Carnations hang at the infamous entrance gate that reads: "Arbeit macht frei", or "Work sets one free" at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial on January 27, 2020 in Oranienburg, Germany. January 27th will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, the most notorious of the many Nazi concentration camps. The Nazis began the operation of Sachsenhausen in 1936, initially as a prison for their political opponents, but later used it for other groups, including Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. Sachsenhausen was the first camp to test the use of gas chambers for perfecting the mass murder of prisoners. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

The Survivor film review: a deeply moving and beautifully acted story about an extraordinary individual

This harrowing post-Holocaust drama might make for a bleak watch, but its message is that of love and forgiveness

By Linda Marric

1 min read

June 23, 2022 15:37

By Daniel Finkelstein

Why Jews ignored stark warnings from inside Auschwitz

New books by Karina Urbach and Jonathan Freedland illustrate how hard it is to believe things that seem unbelievable — and how we persuade ourselves of convenient falsehoods

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June 23, 2022 15:22

Why Jews ignored stark warnings from inside Auschwitz

Australian state bans the display of the Nazi swastika

Anyone who intentionally displays the symbol faces up to a year in jail and/or a fine of $22,000

By Ben Bloch

1 min read

June 22, 2022 16:14

Australian state bans the display of the Nazi swastika

Belgian teacher who rescued Jewish children from the Nazis dies at 100

Andrée Geulen is credited with saving 300 to 400 lives in total

By Felix Pope

1 min read

June 19, 2022 12:28

Belgian teacher who rescued Jewish children from the Nazis dies at 100

By Menachem Rosensaft

Remembrance in the midst of mass graves

The jubilee prompted memories of the Queen's visit to Bergen-Belsen

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June 13, 2022 11:08

Obituary: Jack Aizenberg - a Holocaust survivor, a family man, a 'real-life superhero'

Jack said: 'God was good to me. I have no argument with God. I’m not asking him why was I in the camps. He made it up to me, he did, I can tell you.'

By Ben Bloch

6 min read

June 10, 2022 16:34

Obituary: Jack Aizenberg - a Holocaust survivor, a family man, a 'real-life superhero'

Tributes paid to Bernard Levy, 'kind' liberator of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

He was one of the first soldiers to arrive at the infamous camp

By Ben Bloch

1 min read

June 10, 2022 15:47

Tributes paid to Bernard Levy, 'kind' liberator of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

The man who escaped from Auschwitz so he could warn Jews of what awaited them there

In The Escape Artist, The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, JC journalist Jonathan Freedland tells the incredible story of Slovakian teenager Rudolf Vrba

By Jenni Frazer

6 min read

June 9, 2022 13:55

The man who escaped from Auschwitz so he could warn Jews of what awaited them there

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Holocaust

Theatre review - The End of The Night: Himmler, the chillingly reasonable dinner guest

Holocaust victims’ relatives confront the past in Vienna

The best-read book of the 20th century: the extraordinary story of Anne Frank's Diary

Manhunt for ‘many dozens’ of surviving Nazi criminals

How the pope failed the Jews in the Holocaust

101-year-old SS guard sentenced for war crimes in German court

Vatican to release WW2 files including unanswered Jewish pleas for help to the Catholic church

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