BooksCome to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends Book review: On the trail of the mysterious BorisIn this gripping book, author Kinstler asks: was my grandfather a war criminal?By Daniel Snowman2 min read
Holocaust educationProposed Westminster Holocaust Memorial will include exhibitions about 1947 British pogromsThe memorial — which is subject to a long-running planning battle — will focus on the anti-Jewish riots that swept the UK in 1947By Felix Pope2 min read
Palestinian AuthorityMahmoud Abbas accuses Israel of ‘50 Holocausts' while sharing stage with Olaf ScholzChancellor Scholz is under fire in Germany for not challenging Abbas’ commentsBy Ben Bloch3 min read
HolocaustDutch city renames park named for mayor who betrayed Jews to the NazisThere were 250 Jews on the list given to the Nazis, and by 1951, only 27 remained in the cityBy Ben Bloch1 min read
ObituaryObituary: Rabbi Dow MarmurReform Rabbi who inspired an intellectual and ethical expression of JudaismBy Rabbi Professor Tony Bayfield5 min read
Should we go ahead with the proposed Westminster Holocaust Memorial?Ed Balls, Lord Eric Pickles, and Baroness Ruth Deech debate the issue in the JC as the planned memorial still faces opposition years after it was conceived7 min read
RussiaDeceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri FelsenEnglish translation of the first novel of a writer whose work elicits profound truths about human nature and its motivationsBy Mark Glanville2 min read
Felix Kolmer, Terezin and Auschwitz survivor, dies age 100Kolmer, former President of the International Auschwitz (survivors) Committee, said reaching age 100 was his way of defying the NazisBy Tom Gross 1 min read||August 5, 2022 18:23
Obituary: Bernard Maurice Levy - Belsen liberator who became one of the last surviving death camp liberators later established high street chain store High and MightyHe saw piles of the dead but also watched survivors grow strong again, as babies were born, barmitzvahs and marriages were celebrated and his people came back to lifeBy Howard Parker3 min read||August 5, 2022 14:50
Book review: The Incandescent Threads - Mystic hokum or a popular classic?The latest in author's Sephardic Cycle begins begins by portraying the relationship between a Jewish-American artist and his father, a Holocaust survivor from WarsawBy David Herman1 min read||August 5, 2022 14:48
Appeal to build headstone for the grave of author behind searing Babyn Yar accountCampaign launched to build a headstone for the unmarked grave of Soviet émigré Anatoly Kuznetsov, who wrote novel about massacre after witnessing atrocity aged 12By Nic North2 min read||August 4, 2022 10:01
Inspired by my namesake who died in the HolocaustA family tragedy, and a strange coincidence sparked Melanie Levensohn’s creativityBy Joy Sable5 min read||August 4, 2022 09:46
Anonymous Jewish buyer wins Hitler's watch in million-dollar US auctionThe item was expected to fetch as much as $4mBy Josh Kaplan1 min read||August 2, 2022 10:50
By Melanie PhillipsCritics of this act of communal myopia will not be silencedSupporters of the proposed Holocaust memorial and ‘learning centre’ opposite the Houses of Parliament have been trying to stop those who oppose the plans from speaking out3 min read||July 28, 2022 12:39
‘I told President Biden that he reminded me of my husband’Holocaust survivor photographed speaking with the US President reveals the details of their conversation at Yad VashemBy Natalie Lisbona3 min read||July 21, 2022 10:18
France must do more to fight Jew hate, says Shoah survivor 80 years after Vel d'Hiv roundupJoan Salter MBE was in Paris just before the mass arrest and narrowly escaped deportationBy Felix Pope2 min read||July 17, 2022 09:40