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Alderney concentration camps

Over 1,000 people died in Alderney concentration camps, inquiry will reveal this week

The newly revealed death toll is more than double the official figure believed for decades

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

The entrance to S.S Lager Sylt Concentration Camp on Alderney

Anna Próchniak as Gita Furman in Auschwitz.

By Tanya Gold

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is Holocaust entertainment for non-Jews

3 min read

Paris

Paris Holocaust memorial defaced with red hands in ‘disgraceful act of hate’

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

Yaakov Lubinewski, 99, tends the graves of two Israeli soldiers from his town killed during Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, March 26, 2024. (Credit: Rina Castelnuovo)

October 7 Massacres

Holocaust survivor tends graves of soldiers killed on Oct. 7

By Etgar Lefkovits

4 min read

The second March edition of the London Review of Books has been widely condemned by Jewish writers for its title, "The Shoah after Gaza"

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Howard Jacobson accuses London Review of Books of ‘Jew-baiting’

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Remembering the past: some of the Boys’ children and their offspring visiting Wintershill House last May

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You’ve met the Windermere Children, here are the ‘Southampton Boys’

By Faith Eckersall

6 min read

Anti-Israel

Fury over ‘sickening’ LRB article saying Israel leverages Shoah to ‘slaughter children’

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

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Kindertransport refugee who escaped the Nazis dies aged 100

Henry Wuga became a renowned chef in the UK

By Rosa Doherty

1 min read

March 18, 2024 09:59

Kindertransport refugee who escaped the Nazis dies aged 100

Schools ‘shamefully’ boycotting Holocaust education over Gaza

Voices of the Holocaust, which takes plays preserving the memories and stories of Shoah survivors into schools, is getting ‘radio silence’

By Elisa Bray

2 min read

March 7, 2024 16:28

A scene from 'Kindness: A Legacy of the Holocaust'

‘Aggressive mob’ of pro-Palestine demonstrators block Montreal Jews from event at Holocaust Museum

Demonstrators swarmed the Federation CJA and Holocaust Museum building to protest event featuring Israeli speakers

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

March 5, 2024 12:13

‘Aggressive mob’ of pro-Palestine demonstrators block Montreal Jews from event at Holocaust Museum

Hitler had ‘obvious reasons’ for the Holocaust says Palestinian official

Yasser Abu Sido, an official in the Palestinian Authority made the remarks on Egyptian TV

By JC Reporter

1 min read

March 4, 2024 10:32

Hitler had ‘obvious reasons’ for the Holocaust says Palestinian official

By David Aaronovitch

The Zone of Interest is the finest Shoah film ever made

Instead of telling us what to think, it puts viewers inside the perpetrators’ world to make up our minds

3 min read

February 29, 2024 17:14

The Zone of Interest is the finest Shoah film ever made

Why is Holocaust denial rampant on Gen Z’s favourite news source?

Educational content creators on TikTok are fighting disinformation one myth-busting video at a time

By Eliana Jordan

7 min read

February 28, 2024 12:23

Why is Holocaust denial rampant on Gen Z’s favourite news source?

Fight to preserve ‘Holocaust way station’ as memorial to the dead

Villa Buth in north Germany, which housed hundreds of Jews, faces demolition

By Rob Hyde

2 min read

February 4, 2024 10:52

Fight to preserve ‘Holocaust way station’ as memorial to the dead

By Daniel Finkelstein

My family now have a lasting memorial in Amsterdam

Deciding where to put the Stolpersteine, a plaque on the pavement marking the last place my grandmother lived in freedom before her captivity, was a journey of its own

3 min read

February 1, 2024 10:50

Gunter Demnig, founder of the Stolpersteine project, cleans freshly placed Stolpersteine ('stumbling stones') in commemoration of the Gutmann family (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP via Getty Images)

The shoe sole made from a Torah scroll that bears witness to the Shoah

The relic comes from a Torah scroll owned by Jews from Greece who were deported to their deaths by the Nazis

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

January 25, 2024 07:00

Poignant Holocaust relic: a shoe sole cut from a Sefer Torah (Leeds University)

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Over 1,000 people died in Alderney concentration camps, inquiry will reveal this week

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is Holocaust entertainment for non-Jews

Paris Holocaust memorial defaced with red hands in ‘disgraceful act of hate’

Holocaust survivor tends graves of soldiers killed on Oct. 7

Howard Jacobson accuses London Review of Books of ‘Jew-baiting’

You’ve met the Windermere Children, here are the ‘Southampton Boys’

Fury over ‘sickening’ LRB article saying Israel leverages Shoah to ‘slaughter children’

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