D-Day

July 12, 2025, 12:58 pm

Britain’s oldest Second World War veteran, who helped liberate Belsen, dies aged 110

D-Day veteran Donald Rose, who was born on Christmas Eve 1914, is believed to have been Britain’s oldest man

Mervyn Kersh, 100-year old D-Day veteran, at Normandy, June 2025.

June 12, 2025, 1:46 pm

Jewish D-Day veteran returns to Normandy for 81st commemoration

100-year old Mervyn Kersh paid tribute to the thousands of young men who died fighting Nazi troops in France on June 6, 1944

By Michelle Rosenberg

Stanley Fisher and Mervyn Kersh. Pic: AJEX, June 2024

April 10, 2025, 11:15 am

EXCLUSIVE: Prime minister’s salute to Jewish liberators of Bergen-Belsen

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of liberation by British forces, Keir Starmer pays tribute to heroes Stanley Fisher and Mervyn Kersh in letter organised by Jewish News

By Michelle Rosenberg

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

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

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

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

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

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