Second World War

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

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

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)

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

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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’

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

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Second World War

Arnold Schwarzenegger honoured with courage award for work in combating antisemitism

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Jewish lawyer who spied for Britain after fleeing the Nazis honoured

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

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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

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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

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

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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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Could the Holocaust have been prevented, along with WWII?

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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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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

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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'

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Arnold Schwarzenegger to receive courage award for work in fighting antisemitism

Eternal review - The fate of Italy’s Jews made clear despite the froth

Legal thriller writer Lisa Scottoline turns her hand to historical fiction with well-researched wartime story

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July 27, 2023 14:57

A picture taken on September 14, 2017 shows bottles of wine with pictures of Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin at a shop in the center of Rome. Italy's lower house of Parliament voted for the introduction of an article in the penal code punishing "anyone who propagates the images or contents of the Italian former Fascist Party or the German former Nazist Party" affects production, distribution, diffusion or sale of goods depicting people, images or symbols, and increase of one-third of the punishment for the crimes committed through the web, the rectification of the law is now awaiting voting in the Senate. / AFP PHOTO / Alberto PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Government to launch Channel Island concentration camps inquiry

Investigation ordered into the number of Jewish people killed during the Nazi occupation of Alderney

By Felix Pope

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July 23, 2023 12:47

Government to launch Channel Island concentration camps inquiry

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Second World War

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

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

New revelations about ‘Hitler’s Jewish soldier’

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger honoured with courage award for work in combating antisemitism

Jewish lawyer who spied for Britain after fleeing the Nazis honoured

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

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