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Singing songs of defiance in my ancestors' home town

Singer Mark Glanville only realised his poignant link to Kutno in Poland thanks to a chance post on Facebook

By Mark Glanville

5 min read

Singing songs of defiance in my ancestors' home town

Books

How a language student became the heroic saviour of 16 Jewish Nobel laureates

By Jennifer Lipman

4 min read

STANFORD, CA - MARCH 12: Cyclists ride by Hoover Tower on the Stanford University campus on March 12, 2019 in Stanford, California. More than 40 people, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, have been charged in a widespread elite college admission bribery scheme. Parents, ACT and SAT administrators and coaches at universities including Stanford, Georgetown, Yale, and the University of Southern California have been charged. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Antisemitism

Stanford professor suspended for calling Jewish students 'colonisers'

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Obituary

Obituary: Alice Fraser

By David Fraser

3 min read

Second World War

Jewish lawyer who spied for Britain after fleeing the Nazis honoured

By Gaby Wine

4 min read

Hitler

Austrian government begin work to convert Hitler's house into police station

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Holocaust survivors

Holocaust Survivors’ Centre hailed a ‘lifesaver’ at annual dinner

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

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Legal fight launched to reclaim Shoah victim's paintings

Twelve works by the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele that once belonged to Fritz Grünbaum at centre of court battle

By Liam Hoare

3 min read

September 28, 2023 11:05

Legal fight launched to reclaim Shoah victim's paintings

The Russian playwright speaking out against Putin in the shadow of the Shoah

Dmitry Glukhovsky new drama examines the moral compromises some people make with evil regimes

By John Nathan

5 min read

September 22, 2023 09:53

The Russian playwright speaking out against Putin in the shadow of the Shoah

The White Factory review: An important addition to the Shoah canon

Dmitry Ghlukhovsky’s new play investigates how good people can be corrupted under relatively little pressure

By John Nathan

2 min read

September 21, 2023 15:06

The White Factory review: An important addition to the Shoah canon

The shameful story of art stolen by the Nazis, and the long fight to get it back

Twenty-five years since a landmark conference on looted treasures, Jenni Frazer asks why it has been so hard to get justice

By Jenni Frazer

18 min read

September 19, 2023 16:29

The shameful story of art stolen by the Nazis, and the long fight to get it back

Pope Pius may have known about Nazi gas chambers as early as 1942

A newly released letter indicates the head of the Catholic Church may have known about Nazi death camps earlier than previously thought

By Richard Percival

1 min read

September 18, 2023 11:36

Pope Pius XII pictured working at his typewriter as he replies to peoples personal letters, January 31st 1955. (Photo by Fred Ramage/Keystone/Getty Images)

The artist racing against time to sculpt Holocaust survivors

Frances Segelman is on a quest to capture the images of the generation who witnessed the Shoah

By Nadine Matyas

5 min read

September 18, 2023 08:52

The artist racing against time to sculpt Holocaust survivors

By Karen Pollock

80 years on from the Holocaust, it is the young who are our hope

On Rosh Hashanah, I think of a 14-year-old boy who so determined to survive that he, along with 150 others, dug himself out of a labour camp

2 min read

September 14, 2023 14:11

Two lit shabbat candles in silver candlesticks

'All children should learn about Holocaust horrors', says Education Secretary Gillian Keegan

The cabinet minister said she became interested in the Holocaust after reading The Diary of Anne Frank

By Gaby Wine

3 min read

September 12, 2023 16:33

'All children should learn about Holocaust horrors', says Education Secretary Gillian Keegan

'I had to tell the world about Russia's crimes' says UK's former woman in Kyiv

Dame Melinda Simmons said that her Jewish heritage meant she had to speak up when stationed in Ukraine

By Felix Pope

2 min read

September 12, 2023 10:29

Dame Melinda Simmons, the UK's new ambassador to Poland

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Singing songs of defiance in my ancestors' home town

How a language student became the heroic saviour of 16 Jewish Nobel laureates

Stanford professor suspended for calling Jewish students 'colonisers'

Obituary: Alice Fraser

Jewish lawyer who spied for Britain after fleeing the Nazis honoured

Austrian government begin work to convert Hitler's house into police station

Holocaust Survivors’ Centre hailed a ‘lifesaver’ at annual dinner

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