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A sheltered childhood shattered by Kristallnacht: 98-year-old survivor Inge recalls that terrible night

Inge Gershfield was 10 years old when she was walking to school and saw her synagogue ablaze following the Night of Broken Glass

By Hayley Cregor

6 min read

Inge Gershfield, 98, who witnessed Kristallnacht when she was 10 years old, in her flat in London, November 2, 2026 (Credit: Gary Manhine)

Manfred Goldberg

Manfred Goldberg, mensch of the British Empire, remembered on his first yahrzeit

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

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How I wrote The Tattooist of Auschwitz and other Holocaust stories

By John Jeffay

5 min read

Holocaust Educational Trust

The ‘Gaza genocide’ claim is a blood libel, says Simon Schama

By Daniel Ben-David

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Books

A tale of survival in the Lithuanian forest

By Mark Glanville

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The long lines of blood and family: (clockwise from left) Sharon Ring and her parents Jimmy and Edie on her wedding day in 1987; the writer's parents in Oldenberg in 1946 soon after they met; the writer; the writer's mother, Edie; Jimmy and Edie in Berlin in 1964

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Secret memoir that made Mum finally open up about her story

By Sharon Ring

9 min read

The tea party for the centenarians was held at the German embassy (Photo: Adam Soller Photography)

Germany

German ambassador hosts nine Shoah survivors aged over 100 years old for afternoon tea

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

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By Tanya Gold

Lanzmann’s Shoah was so well done many find it near-impossible to watch

Claude Lanzmann’s epic reshaped how the Holocaust is remembered. He built his film not on archives but on silence – the terrible absence left by the dead

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November 20, 2025 15:08

Henrik Gawkowski, who drove trains carrying Jews to Treblinka, in Shoah (Why Not Productions)

By Tanya Gold

France honours a long dead Jew as the living flee antisemitism

More than a century after scapegoating Alfred Dreyfus, Paris offers symbolic reparations to a corpse

3 min read

June 12, 2025 15:44

Dishonoured: the degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus – not for what he did, but for what he was (Image: Le Petit Journal_

‘My film finally tells the story of the first escape from a Nazi death camp’

Israeli director Lior Geller on his new movie The World Will Tremble

By John Nathan

4 min read

February 26, 2025 17:56

Harrowing scenes: Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jeremy Neumark Jones in The World Will Tremble Photo: Ivan Vatsov

All I Had Was Nothingness review: ‘you will never see a more haunting road movie’

Guillaume Ribot’s film has been culled from unseen footage that Claude Lanzmann’s filmed for his epic documentary, Shoah

By James Mottram

2 min read

February 20, 2025 18:32

Claude Lanzmann driving into the village of Treblinka, in July 1978

How I got to give a Shoah lecture on January 27

I was in a hospital bed on Holocaust Memorial Day so couldn’t join in any official commemorations. Instead, I talked to my physiotherapst about Jewish loss and it felt meaningful

By Karen E H Skinazi

3 min read

February 12, 2025 14:39

How I got to give a Shoah lecture on January 27

The son of the Tattooist of Auschwitz on his parents’ bestseller

Gary Sokolov only learnt the full horror of his mother and father’s ordeals by reading their book

By Nicole Lampert

6 min read

January 23, 2025 16:05

Poignant pilgrimage Gary Sokolov at Auschwitz

Auschwitz commandant’s home from Zone of Interest reclaimed for anti-extremism project

SS commandant’s home used in Oscar-winning film will be transformed into anti-hate hub

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

January 21, 2025 14:21

A guest of the Counter Extremism Project looks out at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum from the top floor of House 88, former home of the former Commandant of Auschwitz in September 2024. (Photo by Adam Trzcionka/Counter Extremism Project)

shoah

A sheltered childhood shattered by Kristallnacht: 98-year-old survivor Inge recalls that terrible night

Manfred Goldberg, mensch of the British Empire, remembered on his first yahrzeit

How I wrote The Tattooist of Auschwitz and other Holocaust stories

The ‘Gaza genocide’ claim is a blood libel, says Simon Schama

A tale of survival in the Lithuanian forest

Secret memoir that made Mum finally open up about her story

German ambassador hosts nine Shoah survivors aged over 100 years old for afternoon tea

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