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The ‘Gaza genocide’ claim is a blood libel, says Simon Schama

Acclaimed historian made the comment in his keynote address to the Holocaust Educational Trust annual dinner

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Keynote speaker at this year's Holocaust Educational Trust appeal dinner, Sir Simon Schama, September 7, 2026

Amberley Thay (R) with Holocaust survivor Annick Lever at an HET event (Instagram/AmberleyThay)

Universities

Exeter student received torrent of antisemitic abuse over Holocaust education role, despite not being Jewish

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

AJR Refugee Voices

Historian honoured by Prince William for letting Holocaust survivors tell their stories

By Gaby Wine

4 min read

National Holocaust Museum

National Holocaust Museum announces major Google partnership

By Ben Conway

1 min read

National Holocaust Museum

National Holocaust Museum director to leave

By Ben Conway

1 min read

Norwegian politician Joel Ystebø (Credit: Instagram)

Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian MP

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Lithuania

Lithuania is ‘ready to face its uncomfortable past’ says educator at its vast new Lost Shtetl Museum

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

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By Simon Sebag Montefiore

How the Shoah’s moral power is weaponised against Jews – and why Western leaders must fight it

This is the text of a speech delivered at the Holocaust Education Trust, warning that the distortion and inversion of the Holocaust is enabling a resurgence of antisemitism, with grave consequences for democratic societies

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January 21, 2026 12:45

How the Shoah’s moral power is weaponised against Jews – and why Western leaders must fight it

Number of UK schools marking Holocaust Memorial Day plunges by more than half

The number of secondary schools to hold events plummeted from more than 2,000 in 2023 to 854 in 2025

By JC Reporter

2 min read

January 19, 2026 11:14

Holocaust Memorial Day is marked annually on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp

Chief Rabbi: Politicising Holocaust Memorial Day fails Shoah victims and the children of today

Ephraim Mirvis has appealed to parents and educators not to succumb to pressure to ‘step back’ from Holocaust education

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

January 18, 2026 11:20

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis pictured in 2025 (Photo: Getty)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The New York school that silenced a Holocaust survivor

The school reportedly has a ‘social activism’ unit that features a module titled ‘Fashion as Activism’, which ‘explicitly includes the keffiyeh’

3 min read

December 9, 2025 17:39

Holocaust Survivor Sami Steigmann is photographed in his home on December 9, 2024 in New York. Steigmann was born on December 21, 1939 in Czernovitz, Bukovina region, Romania. From 1941 through 1944, he was with his parents in the Ukraine at Mogilev-Podolsky, a labor camp in an area called Transnistria. Being too young to work, Sami was subjected to Nazi medical experimentation in his early years. The camp was liberated by the Red Army and his family was deported by the Romanians. Thirty five of his paternal family members as well as many other relatives were murdered by the Nazis. Today, he lives under the poverty line relying on direct financial aid of The Blue Card and continues his work as a motivational speaker and educator. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Sir Ben Helfgott’s legacy inspires a new generation of weightlifters

Pupils from the Lakes School commemorated the Holocaust survivor who went on to become an international sporting champion

By Ben Conway

4 min read

November 27, 2025 18:03

Pupils from The Lakes School with staff and Sir Ben Helfgott's family members (Photo: The Lakes School)

Now is a good time to reimagine Holocaust education

The revised National Curriculum gives us a golden opportunity to improve the teaching of the Holocaust

By Alex Maws

2 min read

November 26, 2025 15:43

The entrance of Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany (Photo: Getty)

Starmer’s wife moved to tears by testimony of Holocaust survivor at Labour conference

Annick Lever told the story of how her mother and other family members were arrested and deported to Auschwitz

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

September 29, 2025 13:06

Georgia Gould MP, Annick Lever BEM and Lady Victoria Starmer (Image: HET).

Pioneering educational psychologist Joy Schaverein dies at 82

Analyst who debunked the boarding school myth and described the pervasive legacy of the Holocaust

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

June 26, 2025 11:47

Pioneering educational psychologist Joy Schaverein dies at 82

‘Let us not throw this opportunity away’, minister urges in Holocaust Memorial Bill debate

The Lords sat until 1am debating amendments to the legislation

By Lorin Bell-Cross

5 min read

June 12, 2025 14:34

An artist's illustration of the plans for the Holocaust memorial and learning centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament

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Holocaust education

The ‘Gaza genocide’ claim is a blood libel, says Simon Schama

Exeter student received torrent of antisemitic abuse over Holocaust education role, despite not being Jewish

Historian honoured by Prince William for letting Holocaust survivors tell their stories

National Holocaust Museum announces major Google partnership

National Holocaust Museum director to leave

Yad Vashem nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian MP

Lithuania is ‘ready to face its uncomfortable past’ says educator at its vast new Lost Shtetl Museum

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