Auschwitz

Conductor and composer Leo Geyer in concert

November 30, 2023, 11:09 am

Music from Auschwitz orchestras pieced together and heard for the first time

A chance conversation at the Nazi death camp in 2015 and a painstaking 'jigsaw' ever since led to this week's first airing in 80 years

By Jenni Frazer

November 27, 2023, 11:56 am

Photos of Hamas hostages placed on Auschwitz train tracks

JFS students on JRoots educational trip to Poland place pictures of remaining hostages outside concentration camp

By Michelle Rosenberg

Beachwood High School is located in one of the country's most Jewish suburbs. (Courtesy of the Cleveland Jewish News)

September 27, 2023, 10:13 am

Ohio high school football coach resigns after players use ‘Nazi’ in play calls

Brooklyn High School from Ohio was playing the team from Beachwood, a suburb with the second-highest rate of Jewish residents in the country.

By Andrew Lapin (JTA)

Lodz Ghetto memorial photograph, showing Zigi Shipper, foreground, touching his hand to his face. Pic: Darren Richman

September 12, 2023, 3:55 pm

OPINION: My grandfather Zigi Shipper – a lifetime defying the odds and surviving

There he was, "staring down the lens and into the future," writes Darren Richman, of the incredible moment he recognised the image of his beloved grandfather at a Lodz Ghetto monument

By Darren Richman

Ajay (Varun Dhawan) and Nisha (Janhvi Kapoor) imagine themselves as Auschwitz prisoners in a scene from the Amazon-distributed "Bawaal." (Screenshot)

July 27, 2023, 11:35 am

Bollywood movie depicts a couple visiting Auschwitz to heal marriage

Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on Amazon Prime to remove the film “due to its outlandish abuse of the Nazi Holocaust as a plot device"

By Andrew Lapin (JTA)

Alice Fraser has died at the age of 103 years old. Pic: AJR

June 14, 2023, 5:04 pm

Tributes to 103-year-old Holocaust survivor Alice Fraser

The great-grandmother of 11 fled Germany in 1939 and was interned on the Isle of Man as an ‘enemy alien’

By Michelle Rosenberg

Robert Rinder in BBC documentary My Family, The Holocaust and Me

May 17, 2023, 6:53 pm

EXCLUSIVE: ‘The limitless value of visiting Auschwitz’ – Rob Rinder on his emotional tour

After years of meeting survivors and taking a lead in Holocaust education, the TV star and lawyer made his first visit to the notorious site with actress and friend Louisa Clein

By Michelle Rosenberg

May 17, 2023, 12:33 pm

Ice cream van parked outside Auschwitz ‘inappropriate on grandest scale’

The van, which had an 'Ice Love' logo on it, was parked near "Death Gate", which served as the main entrance into the most notorious Nazi death camp.

By JN Reporter

(Left to Right), Headteacher Mrs Hannah Martin, Rob Rinder, school President Lord Levy and co-chair of Governors Elizabeth Bennet. Pic: Etz Chaim

May 10, 2023, 1:06 pm

Primary school raises £25k at charity gala dinner

Amid rising running costs for educational institutions, Lord Levy and Rob Rinder support the "future of Judaism" at Etz Chaim in Mill Hill

By Michelle Rosenberg

Josef Lewkowicz, Holocaust Survivor and Nazi Hunter, in conversation with Rabbi Naftali Schiff, founder of JRoots at his book launch in BAFTA. Pic: Blake Ezra

April 25, 2023, 3:41 pm

Nazi hunter, 96, shares his extraordinary story at BAFTA

Surviving six concentration camps and the sole survivor from an extended family of 150, Josef Lewkowicz searched for Nazis in hiding

By Michelle Rosenberg

Jemma Levene and Hifsa Iqbal-Haroon, Nisa Nashim

April 21, 2023, 10:15 am

March of the Living participants break Ramadan fast together

Muslim and Jewish members of Nisa-Nashim share interfaith kosher iftar meal on educational trip to Poland

By Michelle Rosenberg

Mala Tribich addressing the March of the Living group at the Temple synagogue in Krakow. Pic: HMDT

April 17, 2023, 12:12 pm

OPINION: The fight against oppression continues, 80 years after the Warsaw uprising

The 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is a fitting opportunity to humanise Nazi victims and resistance fighters, writes Rachel Century of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

By Rachel Century

March 20, 2023, 9:34 am

Photoshopped Braverman outside Auschwitz image branded ‘utterly disgraceful’

An image of Home Secretary Suella Braverman laughing while in Rwanda to promote her migration deal sparks outrage after being photoshopped onto a photo of the Auschwitz death camp

By JN Reporter

Chief Rabbi Mirvis meeting Dr Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa

March 15, 2023, 1:59 pm

Jewish delegates attend major Muslim conference for first time

Attendees of the Muslim World League’s first European conference included representatives of the Board of Deputies and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

By Dan Hardoon

President of Borussia Dortmund, Daniel Lörcher (Founder of What Matters
H.E.) Ambassador Berger (German Ambassador to the UK),
Carsten Cramer (Managing Director of Borussia Dortmund),
Lord Speaker of the House of Lords,
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis,
Todd Boehly (Chelsea FC owner)
Behdad Eghbali (Chelsea FC owner)
Jonathan Goldstein (Board of Directors Chelsea FC), Lord John Mann (UK government independent advisor on combatting antisemitism) at Stamford Bridge

March 8, 2023, 11:18 am

Chief Rabbi leads service in honour of German Jewish footballer murdered at Auschwitz

Commemorative service held at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday evening, marking 80 years since Julius Hirsch was killed by the Nazis.

By Neil Silver

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