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Politician who questioned how many Jews were killed in Holocaust gets seat on Isle of Man Parliament

Gary Clueit also questioned whether Hamas kidnapped babies and suggested he enjoyed being called antisemitic

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

A politician elected to the Isle of Man parliament described antisemitism as 'That warm feeling it gives you is just the piss running down your leg' and questioned the number of Jews killed in the Shoah

Polish historian and Holocaust survivor Marian Turski speaking at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 2025 (Getty)

Obituary

Polish-born journalist and historian Marian Turski dies aged 98

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

IHRA

Israel takes over IHRA presidency from the UK

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Rose Girone, the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, has died at 113 (Picture: Screenshot)

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Rose Girone, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

By Ellie Grant

3 min read

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The Jews who dressed as Nazis to hunt them down

By Adam Lebor

8 min read

Ireland

Irish Taoiseach hits out at ‘false accusations’ of antisemitism following HMD row

By Ellie Grant

1 min read

By Nick Cohen

Introducing the Holocaust historians who do not understand antisemitism

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Some of us are too scared to watch films on the Holocaust

The Last Musician of Auschwitz is the first film Elisa Bray has watched on the topic

3 min read

February 4, 2025 11:10

The Last Musician of Auschwitz,27-01-2025,Raphael Wallfisch, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch,Raphael Wallfisch playing cello for his mother Anita Lasker-Wallfisch at her London home in 2024,Two Rivers Media,Toby Trackman

Holocaust refugee and educator Renee Bornstein, BEM

Courageous child refugee unfazed by Nazi intimidation

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

January 31, 2025 11:55

Holocaust refugee and educator Renee Bornstein, BEM

So that we never forget: Rare colourised photos of death camp liberation revealed

The images have been restored for the first time as part of a project to combat Holocaust denial

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

January 27, 2025 09:00

A survivor is escorted out of the gates of Penig concentration camp (Image: US National Archives/Spaceship Earth)

How the JC reported Auschwitz’s horror

Archive material reveals how liberation unfolded and the journalists who helped bring the horrors of the death camps to light

By Keren David

1 min read

January 27, 2025 09:00

Archive material has revealed how the JC covered the liberation of Auschwitz

‘I escaped death seven times. I don’t know why I survived’

A project by Claims Conference features the harrowing testimonies of 80 Auschwitz survivors on the anniversary of the camp’s liberation

By Eliana Jordan

9 min read

January 26, 2025 13:00

Bronia Brandman lights a Menorah candle during a Chanukah reception hosted by US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden in Washington, DC in 2022. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Holocaust survivor who rebuilt his lost world thanks to DNA testing

Jackie Young didn’t even know he’d survived the Nazi genocide until he was in his twenties

By Imogen Garfinkel

7 min read

January 25, 2025 15:00

(From left to right) Jackie Young, his wife Lita, Dr. Adina Newman and Jennifer Mendelsohn (Credit: Dr. Adina Newman and Jennifer Mendelsohn)

Nearly half of Americans can’t name a single Nazi death camp, new study finds

The survey discovered a decline in Holocaust education among young people in the nations most directly affected by the atrocities

By JC Reporter

1 min read

January 23, 2025 12:39

A new study has revealed a shocking gap in Holocaust education across Europe and the US (Image: Getty)

Report rejects calls for Belgium Holocaust compensation over role in death camp deportations

The country’s nationalised rail company was paid huge sums by the Nazi regime for helping to facilitate the Shoah, according to a recent study

By JC Reporter

1 min read

January 21, 2025 16:27

An official report in Belgium has rejected calls for compensation over the role of the country's nationalised railway company in death camp deportations during the Holocaust (Image: Getty)

Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Josef Lewkowicz

Lewkowicz helped 600 lost children reach Mandatory Palestine

By Rabbi Naftali Schiff

4 min read

January 17, 2025 00:00

Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Josef Lewkowicz

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Politician who questioned how many Jews were killed in Holocaust gets seat on Isle of Man Parliament

Polish-born journalist and historian Marian Turski dies aged 98

Israel takes over IHRA presidency from the UK

Rose Girone, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

The Jews who dressed as Nazis to hunt them down

Irish Taoiseach hits out at ‘false accusations’ of antisemitism following HMD row

Introducing the Holocaust historians who do not understand antisemitism

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