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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

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

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Actor and Shoah survivor Ruth Posner dies with husband at Swiss suicide clinic

By Jamie Shapiro

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Stolen Czech villa to become Jewish hub in multi-million-pound renovation

By Anthea Gerrie

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (Image: Youtube)

By Philipp Peyman Engel

German chancellor weeps over antisemitism – but fails to back Israel when it counts

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David Schaecter, president of Holocaust survivors foundation, dies at 96

By JC Reporter

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The train tracks to former Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camp with wooden plates with prays and wishes during the 35th March of the Living on April 18, 2023. (Image: Getty)

By Karen Pollock

Even 80 years after liberation, Holocaust education continues to matter profoundly

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LA Holocaust museum deletes post saying ‘never again’ can’t only be about Jews

By JC Reporter

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South African TV host dropped for challenging guest over comparison between Gaza and the Holocaust

The guest had told presenter Juliet Newell that the two were ‘the same thing’

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

September 3, 2025 16:19

Juliet Newell (left) challenged Doctor Mamphela Ramphele (right) on her Gaza/Holocaust comparison (Image: South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC))

Lyon Holocaust memorial defaced with ‘Free Gaza’ graffiti

Action is an attack on French values, says head of French Jewry’s representative body

By JC Reporter

1 min read

August 31, 2025 13:07

Lyon's Holocaust memorial defaced with 'Free Gaza' (image: X)

Dutch artwork stolen by Nazis believed to have been spotted on estate agent’s website

Looted Portrait of a Lady allegedly seen hanging in a for-sale villa in Argentina

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

August 26, 2025 15:10

Portrait of a Lady, on a wall inside an expensive Argentinian house (Image: Robles Casas & Campos)

By Tanya Gold

How popular culture erases the Jews from the Holocaust

The most celebrated Shoah fictions focus on the rare rescuers, fictional non-Jewish victims or sympathetic perpetrators. But you cannot love Jews if you refuse to understand what happened to them, and why

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August 18, 2025 15:52

Scene from the movie Schindler's List. Liam Neeson (centre) as Oscar Schindler who 'enjoyed the war'. (Credit: Universal Pictures)

By Jake Wallis Simons

How the West is amplifying Hamas propaganda

Our tendency to side with our enemies is all very well when it is limited to denigrating our history or paying reparations, but it is an entirely different matter when it comes to supporting those who will behead us

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August 18, 2025 12:42

Anas al-Sharif (left), the Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel and identified by the IDF as a Hamas operative, pictured with Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of October 7 (Image: IDF)

Imperial War Museum doubles down after criticism of wording in Nuremberg Race Law exhibit

The row centres on the inclusion of the word “observant” when describing who the Nazis deemed to be Jewish

By JC Reporter

2 min read

August 13, 2025 11:07

The Imperial War Museum has faced criticism from historians including Simon Sebag Montefiore (Image: Getty)

Texas Democrat apologises for comparing electoral district change to the Holocaust

A bitter row in the state legislature over partisan changes to the electoral map has seen arrest warrants issued for some representatives

By JC Reporter

1 min read

August 8, 2025 12:43

Texas Democrat Jolanda Jones has apologised after comparing a row over plans to redraw the state's electoral boundaries to the Holocaust (Image: Alamy)

Auschwitz Museum ban Israeli flags from IDF delegation

The group attempted to reason with staff at the death camp, but were forced to pack their flags away

By JC Reporter

2 min read

August 3, 2025 08:16

The March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 24, 2025 (Getty)

Jewish actress Miriam Margolyes claims Hitler ‘changed’ Jews and 'made us like him’

The Campaign Against Antisemitism has called for the Harry Potter star to be stripped of her OBE and Bafta after she accused Israel of ‘doing exactly the same thing’ the Nazis did during the Holocaust

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

July 29, 2025 09:58

Miriam Margolyes has claimed that 'Hitler won' as Israel is now 'doing exactly the same thing' in Gaza as the Nazis did during the Holocaust (Image: Alamy)

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Holocaust

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

Actor and Shoah survivor Ruth Posner dies with husband at Swiss suicide clinic

Stolen Czech villa to become Jewish hub in multi-million-pound renovation

German chancellor weeps over antisemitism – but fails to back Israel when it counts

David Schaecter, president of Holocaust survivors foundation, dies at 96

Even 80 years after liberation, Holocaust education continues to matter profoundly

LA Holocaust museum deletes post saying ‘never again’ can’t only be about Jews

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