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The disaster that nearly lost the war

Two new books dissect the Arnhem offensive

By Colin Shindler

4 min read

The disaster that nearly lost the war

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

Michael Pinto-Duschinsky

By Michael Pinto-Duschinsky

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

3 min read

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

Second World War

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

By Daniel Ben-David

5 min read

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)

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

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

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

Second World War

New revelations about ‘Hitler’s Jewish soldier’

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

German pair fear they must leave home Nazis forcibly took from Jewish owners

German pair fear they must leave home Nazis forcibly took from Jewish owners

3 min read

Arnold Schwarzenegger honoured with courage award for work in combating antisemitism

Second World War

Arnold Schwarzenegger honoured with courage award for work in combating antisemitism

By Richard Percival

1 min read

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Jewish lawyer who spied for Britain after fleeing the Nazis honoured

Dr Kurt Erich Glauber has been honoured with a memorial stone at Ipswich Old Cemetery

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October 5, 2023 11:07

Jewish lawyer who spied for Britain after fleeing the Nazis honoured

Rise of the Nazis - The Manhunt review: Exposing the failure to punish evil

Latest installment of series explores why it fell to heroes such as Fritz Bauer and Beate Klarsfeld to finish the work of governments in securing justice for the horrors of Hitler's regime

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October 5, 2023 09:42

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Justin Trudeau 'deeply embarrassed' after hosting Nazi in Canadian parliament

Hunka, 98, served in the Waffen SS and was praised as a 'Ukrainian hero'

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September 26, 2023 08:15

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska listen as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Canada, on September 22, 2023. (Photo by Sean Kilpatrick / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SEAN KILPATRICK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Men dressed as SS Nazis told to leave 1940s festival

The outfits included SS markings, badges with swastikas and the ‘death’s head’ symbol

By Richard Percival

3 min read

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September 20, 2023 13:31

Men dressed as SS Nazis told to leave 1940s festival

How a best-selling children's author beat Long Covid to write a book about Jewish heroines

Liz Kessler's new book is about two brave Jewish sisters who join the resistance in wartime Amsterdam

3 min read

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September 15, 2023 16:33

How a best-selling children's author beat Long Covid to write a book about Jewish heroines

Lord Dannatt

By Lord Dannatt

Could the Holocaust have been prevented, along with WWII?

If Britain had rebuilt its armed forces after 1918 and used them to deter Hitler, maybe history would have been different

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September 14, 2023 16:10

Could the Holocaust have been prevented, along with WWII?

Nick Cohen

The man who saved London from Hitler has been totally forgotten

All sorts of nonentities are honoured with statues but there is nothing to commemorate the role of French resistance hero Michel Hollard

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August 31, 2023 08:38

The man who saved London from Hitler has been totally forgotten

Meet the Muslim and Jew who saved each others lives in conflicts decades apart

A new film tells the incredible story of two friends who risked their lives

By Anthea Gerrie

3 min read

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August 17, 2023 15:26

Meet the Muslim and Jew who saved each others lives in conflicts decades apart

Arnold Schwarzenegger to receive courage award for work in fighting antisemitism

The Hollywood actor is being honoured for his longtime advocacy 'against antisemitism and bigotry'

By Richard Percival

1 min read

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July 31, 2023 12:01

Arnold Schwarzenegger to receive courage award for work in fighting antisemitism

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