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Yad Vashem nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian MP

Joel Ystebø of the Christian Democratic Party put the memorial forward for the award due to its work against Holocaust distortion

By Daniel Ben-David

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Norwegian politician Joel Ystebø (Credit: Instagram)

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

By Daniel Ben-David

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

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

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

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

By JC Reporter

2 min read

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

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

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

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)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The New York school that silenced a Holocaust survivor

3 min read

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

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

By Ben Conway

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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 12:06

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 10:47

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 13:34

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

I told my Holocaust survivor dad’s story at the school which barred him

Michael Bibring travelled to Austria to speak to pupils of the school that expelled his Jewish father in the 1930s

By Michael Bibring

2 min read

June 5, 2025 10:07

I told my Holocaust survivor dad’s story at the school which barred him

Holocaust survivor receives Eastbourne’s highest honour

After the war, Dorit Oliver-Wolff BEM became a successful singer in Germany

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

May 27, 2025 01:25

Dorit receiving her honour from the Mayor of Eastbourne, Councillor Candy Vaughan

AI tool which lets students interact with Holocaust survivors is shortlisted for top award

Testimony 360 was created by the Holocaust Educational Trust in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation

By Gaby Wine

4 min read

May 26, 2025 15:23

Students at Sacred Heart Catholic School participating in a Testimony 360 lesson, an interactive learning programme for delivering Holocaust education in UK schools created by the Holocaust Educational Trust. Also pictured is Manfred Goldberg BEM, the first survivor to feature in Testimony 360 for UK students (Photo: HET)

By Angela Rayner

The atrocities committed at Bergen-Belsen must always be remembered

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner writes for the JC following the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen

2 min read

April 28, 2025 12:43

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner (left) visiting Bergen Belsen. (Image: UK Government)

Half of Holocaust survivors will be lost by 2035, Claims Conference predicts

The organisation also predicted that there would be almost nobody left with first hand experience of the Shoah by 2040

By JC Reporter

3 min read

April 22, 2025 09:25

Fewer than half of all Holocaust survivors worldwide are predicted to remain in 2035, according to a new report from the Claims Conference (Image: Getty)

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Holocaust education

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

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

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

The New York school that silenced a Holocaust survivor

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

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