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Holocaust education is not working in the fight against contemporary antisemitism

It teaches people to care about dead Jews, not living ones, universalises a unique tragedy, consigns the hatred to the past and ignores Israel

By Baroness Ruth Deech

5 min read

The railway track leading to the 'Death Gate' at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp (Image: Getty)

Jane Haining (Council of Christians and Jews)

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Scottish parliament honours Christian matron who died at Auschwitz after refusing to abandon Jewish schoolgirls

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

Coleen Rooney and Wayne Rooney (Getty Images)

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Wayne and Coleen Rooney visit Auschwitz after sons asked to go while learning about Shoah in school

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

A shirt worn by Dwight McNeil of Everton during a Premier League match between Everton and Fulham at Goodison Park on October 26, 2024 (Getty Images)

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Everton supporters’ club condemns local councillor’s comparison of train station queues to Auschwitz

By Lucy Pollock

2 min read

Liverpool

Liverpool mayor calls for suspension of Lib Dem councillors who compared local train station to Auschwitz

3 min read

Belgium

Belgian Jewish group suing government and national rail operator over death camp deportations

By Gabrielle Apfel

1 min read

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Holocaust survivor, 97, takes part in fundraising cycle ride from Auschwitz to Krakow

By Lianne Kolirin

3 min read

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Polish tax protestor faces up to five years in prison over Auschwitz gate replica

The man, known as Marius P, erected the structure as part of a demonstration outside a tax office in Germany

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

May 28, 2026 13:46

The original gates of Auschwitz (Image: Getty Images)

Holocaust survivor and acclaimed psychologist Edith Eger dies aged 98

Her mission in life, in her own words, was to help others ‘heal and thrive’

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

April 28, 2026 15:12

By Lottie Cannon

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

When that happens, it will be up to us to make sure they are still understood, still told properly, and still felt in the way they deserve to be. That is what this experience left me with

3 min read

April 24, 2026 16:08

The author (third from left) at the March of the Living (Image: courtesy of Lottie Cannon)

‘I won’: 96-year-old Auschwitz survivor makes aliyah surrounded by four generations of her family

Charlotte Roth officially became an Israeli citizen at a ceremony in Tel Aviv

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

February 24, 2026 13:30

Charlotte Roth, pictured with some of her family, on the day she officially became an Israeli citizen (Picture: Nefesh b'Nefesh)

Rabbi tells miraculous story of 51 boys who escaped the gas chambers of Auschwitz

Six of the survivors’ testimonies have now been turned into a documentary and a book

By Gaby Wine

3 min read

January 27, 2026 23:43

Rabbi Naftali Schiff (left) with Hershel Herskovic, at the wedding of one of Hershel's great-grandchildren

Far-right Polish lawmaker says ‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews’ in speech outside Auschwitz

Grzegorz Braun has a history of hostility to Jews, from extinguishing Chanukah candles in the Polish parliament to claiming the gas chambers were “fake”

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

November 25, 2025 15:18

Grzegorz Braun holding a fire extinguisher after putting out a Chanukah menorah placed in the parliament lobby on December 12, 2023 (Getty Images)

By Tanya Gold

Lanzmann’s Shoah was so well done many find it near-impossible to watch

Claude Lanzmann’s epic reshaped how the Holocaust is remembered. He built his film not on archives but on silence – the terrible absence left by the dead

4 min read

November 20, 2025 15:08

Henrik Gawkowski, who drove trains carrying Jews to Treblinka, in Shoah (Why Not Productions)

Boris Johnson urges public to ‘call out and stamp out’ antisemitism where they see it during first Auschwitz visit

‘Unmistakably anti-Jewish sentiment is spilling from the lips of people who normally think of themselves as kind and decent,’ the former PM said

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

November 5, 2025 11:54

Boris Johnson speaking at Auschwitz (Image: Lorin Bell-Cross)

Bishop condemns ‘gates of Auschwitz’ float at school’s Halloween parade

The mock-up of the concentration camp entrance appeared on a float organised by a Catholic school in Pennsylvania

By JC Reporter

1 min read

November 2, 2025 10:53

The St Joseph Catholic School float at a Halloween parade in Hanover, Pennsylvania, on October 30, 2025 (Image: X)

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Auschwitz

Holocaust education is not working in the fight against contemporary antisemitism

Scottish parliament honours Christian matron who died at Auschwitz after refusing to abandon Jewish schoolgirls

Wayne and Coleen Rooney visit Auschwitz after sons asked to go while learning about Shoah in school

Everton supporters’ club condemns local councillor’s comparison of train station queues to Auschwitz

Liverpool mayor calls for suspension of Lib Dem councillors who compared local train station to Auschwitz

Belgian Jewish group suing government and national rail operator over death camp deportations

Holocaust survivor, 97, takes part in fundraising cycle ride from Auschwitz to Krakow

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