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PIC: AJEX 2023
Hundreds to gather at Remembrance Parade and Ceremony
By Michelle Rosenberg
AJEX commemorative event on 17th November also marks the 80th anniversary of D Day and 10 years since the end of UK combat operations in Afghanistan
PIC: AJEX 2023
September 23, 2024, 3:05 pm
Hundreds to gather at Remembrance Parade and Ceremony
AJEX commemorative event on 17th November also marks the 80th anniversary of D Day and 10 years since the end of UK combat operations in Afghanistan
By Michelle Rosenberg
German and American soldiers at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany honor Nathan Baskind's remains after their excavation. (U.S. Army)
June 7, 2024, 1:57 pm
In Normandy, a Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave will receive a proper burial
Shot behind enemy lines, US Army first lieutenant Nate Baskind went unidentified as an American Jew for decades. He will be reburied in Normandy on June 23, the 80th anniversary of his death
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
D-Day Veteran David Teacher at Broughton House in Salford. David has died less than a fortnight before the 80th anniversary of the landings.
June 7, 2024, 1:44 pm
Jewish community lights beacon to mark D-Day 80th
Packed crowd at JFS hear veterans' memories as part of national commemoration of June 6 1944
By Jenni Frazer
D-Day - Pic: Imperial War Museum
June 6, 2024, 11:07 am
OPINION: D-Day at 80: the Jewish heroes who helped secure victory
Celebrating the Jewish Servicemen and Women who gave so much 80 years ago
By Dan Fox
D-Day - Pic: Imperial War Museum
June 6, 2024, 10:51 am
OPINION: D-Day – a turning point in Jewish history
The Holocaust, the greatest human crime in world history, would likely have been even worse without D-Day
By Scott Saunders
Sir James d'Avigdor Goldsmid
June 5, 2024, 11:52 am
Unique Jewish youth initiative launched to mark D-Day
AJEX and JLGB commemorate 80th anniversary by opening Goldsmid award across community
By Jenni Frazer
D-Day Veteran David Teacher at Broughton House in Salford. David has died less than a fortnight before the 80th anniversary of the landings.
May 31, 2024, 5:24 pm
Inspirational D-Day veteran dies, aged 100
David Teacher, who served as a mechanic with the RAF in the Second World War and was chairman of the Manchester Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women, died last Friday.
By Jewish News Reporter
Holocaust survivor at the Bergen-Belsen memorial. The camp was liberated by Britain.
February 10, 2020, 12:46 pm
Tory MP reveals his mother entered Bergen-Belsen but was ‘ashamed’ to speak
Bob Stewart spoke of his parent's role in the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, and that she never spoke of her experiences until her deathbed
By Jewish News Reporter
Normandy veteran Mervyn Kersh pictured during the war and today
June 10, 2019, 3:50 pm
75 years on, Jewish D-Day veteran returns to the beach where he made history
Mervyn Kersh joined hundreds of fellow veterans in France last week to honour those who fell on D-Day.
By Mathilde Frot
June 6, 2019, 9:21 am
How Jews helped turn the tide on D-Day 75 years ago
A leading archivist estimates that thousands of Jewish servicemen fought in the allied troops during the Battle of Normandy
By Mathilde Frot
Into the Jaws of death - Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944. By Robert F. Sargent. (National Archives and Records Administration (www.archives.gov)/Wikipedia/Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHoM) Robert F. Sargent)
June 5, 2019, 11:34 am
OPINION: Right side of history on D-Day – fighting nationalism with remembrance
Head of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre, Yana Barinova, discusses the liberation of Europe from the Nazis, in the context of today’s extreme political landscape
By Yana Barinova
A Colossus Mark 2 codebreaking computer, 1943. (The National Archives (United Kingdom)/Wikipedia)
June 5, 2019, 10:56 am
D-Day: The Jewish contribution to the largest seaborne invasion in history
While many know D-Day was an intelligence triumph, experts say few appreciate the Jewish community's input to the key turning point in the Second World War
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Leslie Sutton with his grandson, Daniel Halawi
February 26, 2019, 3:56 pm
D-Day hero who witnessed Nazi trials mourned
Leslie Sutton, who was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 2016 and attended the Nuremburg Trials, has passed away aged 94
By Jewish News Reporter
July 21, 2017, 10:12 am
British Kindertransport escapee officially world’s oldest living radio host
German-born Walter Bingham, 93, awarded Guinness World Record as most senior talk show presenter
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Hyman Pittal with his medal
February 13, 2017, 5:22 pm
Jewish D-Day veteran awarded France’s highest honour
Hyman Pittal, 95, is awarded France's Legion d’Honneur, for his role in the D-Day landings which liberated the country from the Nazis
By Jenni Frazer
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