Holocaust Educational TrustThe ‘Gaza genocide’ claim is a blood libel, says Simon SchamaAcclaimed historian made the comment in his keynote address to the Holocaust Educational Trust annual dinnerBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read
Books A tale of survival in the Lithuanian forestBerl Kagan’s Shoah memoir, written in a used butcher’s copybook, is an important addition to the Holocaust libraryBy Mark Glanville1 min read
shoahSecret memoir that made Mum finally open up about her storyWhen Sharon Ring stumbled across her uncle’s hidden manuscript she discovered what he and her mother had endured in Nazi GermanyBy Sharon Ring9 min read
GermanyGerman ambassador hosts nine Shoah survivors aged over 100 years old for afternoon teaAmbassador Susanne Baumann was appointed to the post in SeptemberBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read
By Tanya Gold Lanzmann’s Shoah was so well done many find it near-impossible to watchClaude 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 dead4 min read
By Tanya Gold France honours a long dead Jew as the living flee antisemitismMore than a century after scapegoating Alfred Dreyfus, Paris offers symbolic reparations to a corpse3 min read
shoah‘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 TrembleBy John Nathan4 min read
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, ShoahBy James Mottram2 min read||February 20, 2025 18:32
How I got to give a Shoah lecture on January 27I 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 meaningfulBy Karen E H Skinazi 3 min read||February 12, 2025 14:39
The son of the Tattooist of Auschwitz on his parents’ bestsellerGary Sokolov only learnt the full horror of his mother and father’s ordeals by reading their bookBy Nicole Lampert6 min read||January 23, 2025 16:05
Auschwitz commandant’s home from Zone of Interest reclaimed for anti-extremism projectSS commandant’s home used in Oscar-winning film will be transformed into anti-hate hubBy Jane Prinsley5 min read||January 21, 2025 14:21
