Holocaust

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Jewish woman who refused to give Adolf Hitler flowers during Berlin Olympics dies aged 102

Yocheved Gold lived to witness Nazi atrocities in her native Germany and the entire history of modern Israel

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

The artwork for the mural in Paisley being painted to commemorate Jane Haining (inset)

Scotland

Artwork unveiled for mural to honour ‘heroic’ Scot who refused to abandon Jewish schoolgirls in Budapest

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Dead bodies at the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Centre in Iran (Image: Getty)

By Mattie Heaven

Iran’s antisemitic regime is slaughtering its own people – and the West is silent

3 min read

A pro-Palestine protester in striped pyjamas in Westminister (X/NickTimothy)

Pro-Palestine protests

Police arrest Palestine protester dressed in mock Holocaust victim pyjamas

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Holocaust

Let us choose hope, Heaton Park rabbi tells audience at Holocaust event

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Football

BBC football pundit apologises for saying manager's poor stint was an 'absolute Holocaust'

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

The young Erno Spiegel (courtesy The Last Twins)

Holocaust

Pen used to spare children from the gas chambers is donated to Shoah museum

By Anthea Gerrie

1 min read

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Immortalised in bronze: the face of death camp survivor who transformed child psychotherapy

Dr Lydia Tischler sits as latest in a series of busts by sculptress Frances Segelman of Jews who emerged from the Holocaust to settle in Britain

By Nicole Lampert

2 min read

December 10, 2025 13:46

Survivor Dr Lydia Tischler, who received an MBE earlier this month, here sitting for her bust by the sculptor Frances Segelman

Poland summons Israeli ambassador in diplomatic row over Yad Vashem tweet

The country’s foreign ministry objected that the post did not specify that it was occupied by Germany at the time of the Holocaust

By Ben Conway

1 min read

November 26, 2025 13:54

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski addresses a joint press conference on a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle of France, Germany and Poland with Ukraine's foreign minister in Warsaw, on September 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

France investigating X’s Grok AI bot after it repeated Holocaust denial

The AI model claimed that the gas chambers were used to combat typhus in concentration camps, closely resembling remarks made by proven Holocaust denier David Irving

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

November 26, 2025 11:42

X owner Elon Musk looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2025 (Getty Images)

Far-right Polish lawmaker says ‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews’ in speech outside Auschwitz

Grzegorz Braun has a history of hostility to Jews, from extinguishing Chanukah candles in the Polish parliament to claiming the gas chambers were “fake”

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

November 25, 2025 15:18

Grzegorz Braun holding a fire extinguisher after putting out a Chanukah menorah placed in the parliament lobby on December 12, 2023 (Getty Images)

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

4 min read

November 20, 2025 15:08

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

Thousands attend annual AJEX parade to honour the Jews who served in the World Wars

The Jewish community came together on Sunday to remember their fallen soldiers and to show resilience

By Jamie Shapiro

4 min read

November 16, 2025 19:03

The annual AJEX remembrance day was held on November 16 (Image: Justin Grainge)

The BBC is like an ‘alcoholic’ that won’t admit its ‘chronic’ problem, Michael Gove tells JC event

The former cabinet minister, now editor of the Spectator, discussed BBC bias and the rise in antisemitism with JC editor Daniel Schwammenthal

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

November 13, 2025 16:18

Lord Gove, (left), spoke to JC editor Daniel Schwammenthal, (right), at Westminster's Western Marble Arch Synagogue

Starmer pays tribute to Mervyn Kersh and Manfred Goldberg at the start of PMQs

The prime minister said that Manfred Goldberg’s memory meant ‘we must ensure that “never again” means never again’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

November 12, 2025 17:10

Mervyn Kersh, 100, with a photo of himself as a young soldier.

Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

Members of ‘Ruth’s film club’ told the JC that the decision to end her life at the Swiss clinic was hers, not that of her husband

By Elisa Bray

3 min read

November 5, 2025 14:09

Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

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Holocaust

Jewish woman who refused to give Adolf Hitler flowers during Berlin Olympics dies aged 102

Artwork unveiled for mural to honour ‘heroic’ Scot who refused to abandon Jewish schoolgirls in Budapest

Iran’s antisemitic regime is slaughtering its own people – and the West is silent

Police arrest Palestine protester dressed in mock Holocaust victim pyjamas

Let us choose hope, Heaton Park rabbi tells audience at Holocaust event

BBC football pundit apologises for saying manager's poor stint was an 'absolute Holocaust'

Pen used to spare children from the gas chambers is donated to Shoah museum

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