Holocaust Memorial Day 2026Wigmore Hall concert brings together Jewish and German studentsPupils from JCoSS and The German School London sang at an event to mark Holocaust Memorial DayBy Ben Conway3 min read
Holocaust Memorial Day 2026German and Jewish teenagers unite for poignant Holocaust Memorial Day concertMusic will be played alongside survivor testimony from the Nuremberg and Eichmann trialsBy Ben Conway4 min read
Holocaust Memorial DayAJR commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day by bridging the past and presentThe annual event featured speeches by a Holocaust survivor and several generations of descendants to underscore the living legacy of the Shoah todayBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
Kindertransport‘Seeing what it means to the survivors is beyond anything I could ever write in a history book’Dr Amy Williams tells the JC how she has unearthed extraordinary information about the Kindertransport refugeesBy Ben Conway4 min read
GermanyGerman ambassador hosts nine Shoah survivors aged over 100 years old for afternoon teaAmbassador Susanne Baumann was appointed to the post in SeptemberBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read
Holocaust educationNow is a good time to reimagine Holocaust educationThe revised National Curriculum gives us a golden opportunity to improve the teaching of the HolocaustBy Alex Maws2 min read
AJEXRemembrance events to honour Jewish contribution to war effortThe Association of Jewish Refugees and the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women are organising significant events this monthBy Daniel Ben-David3 min read
Mensch of the Month – Lilian Levy: ‘I wanted to give something back to the people who had helped me’Lilian volunteered for nearly 30 years, firstly at World Jewish Relief, and, more recently, at the Association of Jewish RefugeesBy Bradley Grant2 min read||September 18, 2025 15:34
George Summerfield, Holocaust survivor, dies at 91A Jewish refugee from Germany who escaped from Berlin in 1939By Eliana Jordan3 min read||April 9, 2025 13:19
Holocaust survivors share their keepsakes to teach lessons of the pastThe 80 Objects/80 Lives digital exhibition was launched just before Holocaust Memorial DayBy Eliana Jordan2 min read||January 21, 2025 15:00
Attack against Israel organisations was ‘echo of Kristallnacht’, says rabbi at commemoration serviceSaturday will be the 86th anniversary of the destruction of synagogues, Jewish homes, shops and businesses at the hands of the NazisBy Felix Pope3 min read||November 8, 2024 16:00
Kindertransport refugees given warm reception at Mansion HouseThe Mayor and Mayoress of the City of London were marking 85 years since the KinderstransportBy Gaby Wine2 min read||July 30, 2024 06:31
AJR thanks its volunteers for helping Holocaust survivors and refugees share their storiesVolunteers are instrumental in the My Story projectBy Ellie Grant2 min read||June 6, 2024 15:44
Reverend Francis Wahle passes away aged 95Despite being raised Catholic, Francis Wahle was considered Jewish under the Nuremberg LawsBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read||May 15, 2024 14:39
Young people are carrying the torch of Holocaust testimonyGenerations 2 Generations encourages descendants of survivors and refugees to tell the stories of their ancestorsBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read||April 26, 2024 16:18
Association of Jewish Refugees honours two Auschwitz escapees who warned the world of what they witnessedAlfréd Wetzler and Rudi Vrba are credited with saving the lives of 200,000 Hungarian JewsBy Daniel Ben-David3 min read||April 17, 2024 16:24
