Second World War

Swiss to put up memorial to Nazi victims at last

European nation will erect a monument to commemorate those who perished under Hitler's regime

By Rob Hyde

1 min read

Rhaetische Bahn/RhB - Der Bernina Express entlang des Lago Bianco. Eine Fahrt von den Gletschern zu den Palmen. Rhaetian Railway/RhB - Bernina Express running beside Lake Bianco. Ferrovia retica/FR - Il Bernina Express lungo il Lago Bianco. Un viaggio dai ghiacciai alle palme. Copyright by Rhaetische Bahn By-line: swiss-image.ch/Christoph Benz

Former chief prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz addresses guests during the inauguration of the new information and documentation center "Memorial Nuremberg Trials", in Nuremberg, southern Germany, on November 21, 2010. The exhibit is located in the attic above courtroom 600 where 21 top Nazis including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess went on trial on November 20, 1945, in full view of the world's, and Germany's, media. The courtroom is still in use but when not, members of the public can still enter, and visitors to the new exhibit can peek through small windows and see where the historic events of 1945-6 unfolded. The German city of Nuremberg was associated like no other with the Nazis. It was here that they created the main race laws against Jews and where their enormous party rallies took place. AFP PHOTO POOL / ARMIN WEIGEL (Photo credit should read ARMIN WEIGEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Obituary

Obituary: Benjamin Ferencz

By John Cooper

3 min read

A group of Jewish civilians being held at gunpoint by German SS troops after being forced out of a bunker where they were sheltering during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in German-occupied Poland, World War II, 19th April - 16th May 1943. The photograph is from an official report from SS and Police Leader JÃ¼rgen Stroop to SS commander Heinrich Himmler, entitled 'Es gibt keinen jÃ¼dischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!' ('There is no Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Any more!"). The SS man on the right is SS-RottenfÃ¼hrer Josef BlÃ¶sche, who was executed for war crimes, in East Germany in 1969. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Yom Hashoah 2023

The true meaning of freedom

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Steven Spielberg

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By Karen Glaser

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Holocaust

Jewish Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz dies at 103

By JC Reporter

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Obituary

Obituary: Alfred Huberman

By Michelle Huberman

2 min read

The U.S. and the Holocaust,09-01-2023,Nazi Party meeting or rally. Sign in back reads "Kauft nicht bei Juden" - Don't buy from Jews.,National Archives and Record Administration NARA,Unknown

Germany

Finally, The end of the German Reich in sight at last

By Rob Hyde

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My Father’s House book review: Irish priest who defied Nazis in Rome

Twisty Second World War thriller follows Hugh O’Flaherty's running battle of wits with a Gestapo leader

By Jenni Frazer

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The monument is dedicated to the around 15,000 Jews who were murdered outside Kharkiv in Ukraine's northeast

By Paul Cainer

2 min read

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Ukraine Holocaust memorial damaged by missile strike

Obituary: Captain Marcel Jaurant-Singer

French Resistance hero who trained partisans to carry out sabotage operations against Nazis

By Martin Sugarman

1 min read

March 2, 2023 15:51

The Aboriginal leader who spoke up for the Jews

After Kristallnacht, one of the only protests in the world came from an Australian Yorta Yorta tribesman. Now a musical composition pays tribute to him

By Etan Smallman

6 min read

March 2, 2023 13:46

The Aboriginal leader who spoke up for the Jews

BBC series tells the story of Tyneside’s Holocaust refugee house for girls

In a story never told before: Up to two dozen Jewish girls were supported by Tyneside's Jewish community in the lead-up to the outbreak of the Second World War

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

February 17, 2023 15:48