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Rob Rinder

Ben Helfgott gifted me an understanding of the Shoah that was unforgettable

Rob Rinder met Sir Ben while filming a documentary about his grandfather

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Polish-born Holocaust survivors Ben Helfgott, 84, poses for a photograph in London on May 5, 2014, as he arrives to attend The Holocaust Commission consultation event. Hundreds of survivors of the Holocaust will give their views on how the Holocaust should be remembered in Britain to inform recommendations the Commission will make to the Prime Minister in December. AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 24: British Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg greet representatives from the Holocaust Educational Trust including Holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott (c) before signing a Book of Commitment pledging their support and commitment to remembering the Holocaust, at 10 Downing Street on January 24, 2012 in London, England. Mr Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg both met with representatives from the Holocaust Educational Trust ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on January 28. (Photo by Dan Kitwood - WPA Pool /Getty Images)

Sir Ben taught us the importance of teaching the next generation about the Shoah

By Olivia Marks-Woldman

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Holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott holds a memorial candle as he stands on the Millennium Bridge in central London on January 27, 2013 during an event marking Holocaust Memorial Day. AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Karen Pollock

By Karen Pollock

Ben Helfgott was a tireless campaigner for Holocaust education and my hero

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The railway tracks entering the main building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi death camp are pictured ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark visit in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 5, 2019. - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will honour Holocaust victims on December 6, 2019 with her first official visit to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a Nazi German killing factory where more than 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews, perished during World War II. (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Holocaust survivors

Germany to give £1.1 billion to Holocaust survivors across the world in 2024

By Tash Mosheim

2 min read

Meet the Kindertransport refugee who fled the Nazis and turbo-charged mankind’s journey into outer space

Kindertransport

Meet the Kindertransport refugee who fled the Nazis and turbo-charged mankind’s journey into outer space

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Gdańsk. Powrót w przestrzeń publiczną Pomnika Kindertransportów

Polish Kindertransport memorial restored to its Gdansk city centre site

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

German curator returns silver heirlooms confiscated by the Nazis to Jewish families

German curator returns silver heirlooms confiscated by the Nazis to Jewish families

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Canadian auction site under fire for selling items linked to Holocaust

The 'memorabilia' on offer include an empty canister of Zyklon B

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June 12, 2023 14:48

Canadian auction site under fire for selling items linked to Holocaust

Anne Frank's childhood friend shares their untold final words together

In her memoir 'My Friend Anne Frank', Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar wrote about the last meeting the two had at Bergen-Belsen

By Tash Mosheim

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June 6, 2023 11:42

Anne Frank's childhood friend shares their untold final words together

'My mum was rounded up by Hitler's henchmen whilst games were being played in local parks'

Tory peer Daniel Finkelstein tells of the harrowing stories of camps and gulags in his book

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June 1, 2023 15:18

Tanya Gold speaks with journalist and politician Danny Finkelstein. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 11/05/2023

The 'unwinnable' video game that lights a path for Shoah education

The Light in the Darkness has been designed to tell the Holocaust story in an empathetic way that will engage young viewers

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June 1, 2023 11:29

The 'unwinnable' video game that lights a path for Shoah education

Private diaries of 1948 generation offer 'authentic' history of Israel

Operation Diary, an initiative of The National Library of Israel, is appealing to the public to send in written recollections

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May 24, 2023 11:35

Private diaries of 1948 generation offer 'authentic' history of Israel

Wikipedia bans editors for denying Polish complicity in Holocaust

Four editors had aimed to introduce content which absolves Poland of blame for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust

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May 23, 2023 15:51

Wikipedia bans editors for denying Polish complicity in Holocaust

A Small Light TV review: A new perspective on the horror of the Shoah

New drama manages to centralise the tragedy of the Frank family but from an exterior perspective

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May 12, 2023 09:56

Bel Powley as Miep Gies in A SMALL LIGHT. (Credit: National Geographic for Disney/Dusan Martincek)

Rafael Behr

WWII is slipping away into realm of mythology

The use of the Third Reich to score political points or make glib analogies betrays our past

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May 11, 2023 13:01

The U.S. and the Holocaust,09-01-2023,Nazi Party meeting or rally. Sign in back reads "Kauft nicht bei Juden" - Don't buy from Jews.,National Archives and Record Administration NARA,Unknown

Swiss to put up memorial to Nazi victims at last

European nation will erect a monument to commemorate those who perished under Hitler's regime

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May 11, 2023 12:36

Rhaetische Bahn/RhB - Der Bernina Express entlang des Lago Bianco. Eine Fahrt von den Gletschern zu den Palmen. Rhaetian Railway/RhB - Bernina Express running beside Lake Bianco. Ferrovia retica/FR - Il Bernina Express lungo il Lago Bianco. Un viaggio dai ghiacciai alle palme. Copyright by Rhaetische Bahn By-line: swiss-image.ch/Christoph Benz

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