KristallnachtA sheltered childhood shattered by Kristallnacht: 98-year-old survivor Inge recalls that terrible nightInge Gershfield was 10 years old when she was walking to school and saw her synagogue ablaze following the Night of Broken GlassBy Hayley Cregor6 min read
Manfred GoldbergManfred Goldberg, mensch of the British Empire, remembered on his first yahrzeitThe German-born Holocaust survivor and beloved educator passed away on November 6, 2025 at the age of 95By Daniel Ben-David2 min read
My VoiceMy Voice awarded National Lottery funding to preserve Holocaust survivor and refugee storiesMy Voice creates books of individual life stories of people who settled in the North-West of EnglandBy Hayley Cregor3 min read
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin WelbyFormer Archbishop of Canterbury says Israel is ‘the land that God promised’Justin Welby was speaking at an event for ‘Repairing the Breach’, which seeks to make amends for British Mandate harm to JewsBy Ben Conway2 min read
Nobel PrizeFrench Holocaust survivor wins Nobel Prize in chemistryHenri Kagan was awarded the Nobel Prize for his joint effort to selectively create mirror image versions of moleculesBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read
IsraelIsrael’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies aged 107Yehuda Aharon Widawski, his younger brother, and one uncle were the only members of their family to survive the Nazi extermination of JewsBy JC Reporter1 min read
HolocaustHolocaust survivor to return to Austrian Kindertransport station where she was saved from NazisGabriele Keenaghan is making the trip, with a helping hand from an anonymous benefactor, to mark her 100th birthdayBy Lucy Pollock3 min read
Treasured ‘Teddy’ tells the story of Shoah survivor in Imperial War Museum exhibitionJohn Hajdu survived both Nazi and communist persecution – before coming to the UK with his beloved toyBy Alma Green4 min read||August 4, 2026 13:40
Holocaust survivor Tom Reichental, who taught thousands of Irish students about the Shoah, dies at 90Slovakia-born Bergen-Belsen child survivor who moved to Israel after the war before starting a new life in Ireland, where he made Holocaust education his final missionBy Eliana Jordan3 min read||June 12, 2026 17:18
Holocaust survivor and acclaimed psychologist Edith Eger dies aged 98Her mission in life, in her own words, was to help others ‘heal and thrive’By Jamie Shapiro2 min read||April 28, 2026 15:12
‘I won’: 96-year-old Auschwitz survivor makes aliyah surrounded by four generations of her familyCharlotte Roth officially became an Israeli citizen at a ceremony in Tel AvivBy Siam Goorwich1 min read||February 24, 2026 13:30
Number of Shoah survivors drops below 200,000Nearly 2,000 are aged 100 or over, according to new estimates from the Claims ConferenceBy JC Reporter1 min read||January 25, 2026 10:44
Lady Starmer visibly moved at No10 tea for Shoah survivor and Holocaust Education Trust ambassadorsVictoria Starmer joined by Annick Lever for special Downing Street reception on Thursday ahead of Holocaust Memorial DayBy Jane Prinsley2 min read||January 23, 2026 09:55
Fewer than 200,000 Shoah survivors left as world prepares for 81st Holocaust Memorial DayOut of the 196,000 still alive, around half live in Israel, while 17 per cent call Western Europe home and 16 per cent live in the USBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read||January 21, 2026 13:08
Holocaust survivor’s memorial bench destroyed in Manchester in ‘despicable act of Jew-hatred’Chaim Ferster, who dedicated his life to educating young people about the horrors of the Shoah, was honoured with the special bench in 2019, two years after he diedBy Jamie Shapiro2 min read||January 8, 2026 11:04
Ofcom investigating after X’s Grok AI bot creates ‘undressed image’ of descendant of Holocaust survivors outside Auschwitz“The creation of undressed or sexualised images without consent is degrading, abusive and it is not a victimless crime,” said Bella WallersteinerBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read||January 7, 2026 15:06
