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Belgian man recognised as Righteous Among the Nations 80 years after saving the life of a mother and son

George Bourlet’s descendants attended the ceremony at the Israeli embassy in Brussels on Monday

By Daniel Ben-David

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Righteous among the Nations: George Bourlet

Belarusian workmen excavate a mass grave of Jewish victims, uncovered at a construction site in the city of Brest, February 27, 2019 (Credit: SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images)

Second World War

Holocaust-era Jewish mass grave found in rural Belarus

By Daniel Ben-David

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Lincoln Jewish Memorial Stone

Dedication ceremony held for Lincolnshire Jewish memorial stone

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Darryl Cooper appeared on Tucker Carlson's podcast The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson’s guest downplays Holocaust as Elon Musk calls interview ‘worth watching’

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Winton honoured in Prague by child refugees he saved

Second World War

Winton honoured in Prague by child refugees he saved

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When Captain Marvel fought antisemitism

When Captain Marvel fought antisemitism

By Joel Meadows

1 min read

British statesman and prime minister Neville Chamberlain (1869 - 1940) at Heston Airport on his return from Munich after meeting with Hitler, making his 'peace in our time' address. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

David Aaronovitch

By David Aaronovitch

The ‘Neutrality with Hitler’ argument is a sad reflection of today’s politics

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Largest ever publicly accessible online archive of Second World War memorabilia goes live today

‘Their Finest Hour’ is a University of Oxford project that over several months collected and digitised over 25,000 items of value

By Daniel Ben-David

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June 6, 2024 14:23

Thousands of artefacts and memorabilia from the Second World War have been collected and digitised through the 'Their Finest Hour' online archive project

Jewish D-Day veterans recount liberating the Nazi death camp Bergen-Belsen

Two 99-year-old Jewish veterans of D-Day have spoken with the JC about their experiences fighting through Europe and each taking part in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen

By Daniel Ben-David

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June 6, 2024 09:00

Mervyn Kersh returns to the infamous D-Day beach (Credit: Courtesy)

Channel Islands death camp was no ‘mini-Auschwitz’, review finds

Around 1,000 people, including deported French Jews, were killed on the British crown dependency

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May 22, 2024 11:59

The Alderney camp featured 'brutality, sadism and murder', Lord Pickles said (Photo: Getty Images)

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

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May 19, 2024 11:39

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

The disaster that nearly lost the war

Two new books dissect the Arnhem offensive

By Colin Shindler

4 min read

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May 17, 2024 14:57

The disaster that nearly lost the war

Michael Pinto-Duschinsky

By Michael Pinto-Duschinsky

Why I fear that next week’s inquiry into Alderney deaths will not be objective

Members of the panel have already expressed trenchant views

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May 16, 2024 11:34

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

Who was Alan Overton, the unsung hero who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children

Alan Overton was a shopkeeper in Rugby and Christadelphian who believed in not calling attention to one’s own good deeds

By Daniel Ben-David

5 min read

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May 1, 2024 09:24

Left: Alan Overton with the boys of Little Thorn hostel in Rugby, with house mother Mrs Sperber, Right: Alan Overton

Association of Jewish Refugees honours two Auschwitz escapees who warned the world of what they witnessed

Alfréd Wetzler and Rudi Vrba are credited with saving the lives of 200,000 Hungarian Jews

By Daniel Ben-David

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April 17, 2024 16:24

Left to right: Rudolf Vrba's granddaughter Hannah, AJR CEO Michael Newman OBE, Ambassador of Slovakia to the UK Dr Róbert Ondrejcsák, translator and Slovak literature promoter Julia Sherwood, Director of AJR Refugee Voices Dr Bea Lewkowicz, author and journalist Jonathan Freedland, and the director of the Sered' Holocaust Museum Dr Martin Korčok, April 15, 2024 (Credit: AJR)

New revelations about ‘Hitler’s Jewish soldier’

A new documentary takes on the jaw-dropping story of Alex Kurzem, whose past as an accidental Nazi mascot has been questioned by some

By Daniel Ben-David

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February 4, 2024 12:53

Alex Kurzem, centre, with the Latvian battalion that is said to have took him in (Credit: SBS / Australian Uncovered)

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