Holocaust

Women step into the top job at the Wiener Library for first time

The Holocaust archive collection was originally set up in the early 1930s to chronicle rising antisemitism

By Alma Green

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March 12, 2026 12:35

New co-directors of the Wiener Library Dr Barbara Warnock (left) and Dr Christine Schmidt (Photo: Adam Soller)

Community leaders abandon exemption that allowed German Jews to avoid military service

Move follows new legislation revising rules on military service

By Rob Hyde

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March 5, 2026 16:27

German Bundeswehr troops during ceremony to mark the expansion of Germany's Lithuania military commitment (Photo by Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images)

Peter Kien stowed his art in a suitcase before the Nazis murdered him – now it’s finally in safe hands

The Wiener Library has just acquired 681 drawings, poems and letters by Kien, whose work has been recovered after an 80-year journey

By Eliana Jordan

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February 11, 2026 13:13

One of the drawings from Theresienstadt found in Kien's suitcase

Jewish woman who refused to give Adolf Hitler flowers during Berlin Olympics dies aged 102

Yocheved Gold lived to witness Nazi atrocities in her native Germany and the entire history of modern Israel

By Daniel Ben-David

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February 3, 2026 13:33

Artwork unveiled for mural to honour ‘heroic’ Scot who refused to abandon Jewish schoolgirls in Budapest

The mural commemorates the bravery of Jane Haining, who died in Auschwitz

By Jamie Shapiro

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January 30, 2026 17:00

The artwork for the mural in Paisley being painted to commemorate Jane Haining (inset)

By Mattie Heaven

Iran’s antisemitic regime is slaughtering its own people – and the West is silent

The UK must move from statements to strategy. That means proscribing the IRGC, expanding targeted sanctions, closing legal and financial safe havens, and supporting international accountability mechanisms for crimes against humanity

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January 29, 2026 17:58

Dead bodies at the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Centre in Iran (Image: Getty)

Police arrest Palestine protester dressed in mock Holocaust victim pyjamas

The woman reportedly heckled Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy MP while demonstrating outside parliament

By Jamie Shapiro

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January 29, 2026 14:04

A pro-Palestine protester in striped pyjamas in Westminister (X/NickTimothy)

Let us choose hope, Heaton Park rabbi tells audience at Holocaust event

Rabbi Daniel Walker speaks at National Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day after terror attack at his shul

By Daniel Ben-David

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January 27, 2026 19:23

BBC football pundit apologises for saying manager's poor stint was an 'absolute Holocaust'

Former Premier League and Ireland star Shay Given ‘genuinely mortified’ after incident on Final Score show

By Jamie Shapiro

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January 11, 2026 15:15

Football pundit Shay Given (Image: Getty Images)

Holocaust-denying councillor elected in Tower Hamlets despite Aspire Party suspension

Holocaust survivor and acclaimed psychologist Edith Eger dies aged 98

March of the Living: our generation will soon be the last to hear these stories directly from Holocaust survivors

‘You will not force us into ghettos again’: Israeli ministers hit out at Europe on eve of Yom HaShoah

Starmer’s Yom HaShoah message: I will not look away from antisemitism

Death camp survivor’s haunting sketches hidden for decades to go on display

Yom HaShoah UK 2026: Remembering the past, confronting antisemitism now

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Women step into the top job at the Wiener Library for first time

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Iran’s antisemitic regime is slaughtering its own people – and the West is silent

Police arrest Palestine protester dressed in mock Holocaust victim pyjamas

Let us choose hope, Heaton Park rabbi tells audience at Holocaust event

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