Second World War

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

8 min read

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

Alderney

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

By Felix Pope

2 min read

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

Alderney concentration camps

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

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Second World War

The disaster that nearly lost the war

By Colin Shindler

4 min read

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)

AJR

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

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

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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

1 min read

February 4, 2024 12:53

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

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

A pensioner and her son have been told they must give up their house after a court ruled that a Holocaust restitution organisation are the rightful owners

By Rob Hyde

3 min read

January 31, 2024 10:05

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger honoured with courage award for work in combating antisemitism

The Hollywood actor declared: 'Hatred you never ever win; love in the end always wins'

By Richard Percival

1 min read

November 7, 2023 11:14

Arnold Schwarzenegger honoured with courage award for work in combating antisemitism

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

By Gaby Wine

4 min read

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

By Josh Howie

2 min read

October 5, 2023 09:42