Holocaust memorial

The desecrated memorial (Twitter/Emmanuel Gregoire)

July 20, 2026, 12:56 pm

Holocaust memorial vandalised in Paris ahead of annual commemoration

French police are investigating the incident, which has been condemned at both local and national level

By JN Reporter

Memorial-Dedication-Group-Shot. Jewish Joint Burial Society Sunday 7th June 2026

June 9, 2026, 9:00 am

First Holocaust Memorial at a Progressive Judaism cemetery

Moving ceremony at Woodland Cemetery in Cheshunt, which serves Progressive, Masorti and Independent Jewish communities

By Michelle Rosenberg

Planned entrance to Holocaust Learning Centre

January 23, 2026, 9:10 am

Chief Rabbi joins PM and communal leaders in welcoming Holocaust Memorial Bill’s Royal Assent

Passage of the Bill clears significant hurdle in progressing plans for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre

By Lee Harpin

Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London ahead of a hearing regarding the UK Holocaust Memorial. The London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust is opposed to a new UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre being built in Victoria Tower Gardens, a small triangular Grade II-listed park next to Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster. Issue date: Tuesday February 22, 2022.

January 22, 2026, 9:01 am

Westminister Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre finally set to go ahead as legal hurdle is removed

Deputy Lords leader Lord Collins told peers 'need for such a memorial and for a learning centre, which will remind people of the terrible facts of the Holocaust, seems only to have increased during this time'

By Lee Harpin

Proposed design of Westminster Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens

January 20, 2026, 6:48 pm

Government assurances on Holocaust Memorial Learning Centre welcomed as Lords’ amendment rejected

Communities minister Miatta Fahnbulleh said centre's focus would be on 'education about the Holocaust and about antisemitism'

By Lee Harpin

August 6, 2025, 10:26 am

OPINION: A Christian reckoning with the Holocaust

Stephen D. Smith recalls the moments that reshaped his faith, from Yad Vashem to the birth of UK Holocaust education

By Stephen D Smith

June 19, 2025, 12:05 pm

Opinion: The government should back this amendment to the Holocaust memorial bill

Lord Verdirame's amendment, that the future learning centre should focus solely on the Holocaust and antisemitism, has been opposed by the government. He urges them to reconsider

By Lord Verdirame

June 18, 2025, 11:19 am

Holocaust memorial critics warn of creating ‘monument to death and the Nazis’

Critics claim Westminster Holocaust memorial risks becoming a ‘monument to Nazis’ as Bill clears final Lords stage

By Jewish News Reporter

Artist's impression issued by the UK Holocaust Memorial showing the aerial view of the proposed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London. The London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust is opposed to a new UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre being built in Victoria Tower Gardens, a small triangular Grade II-listed park next to Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster. Issue date: Tuesday February 22, 2022.

June 12, 2025, 12:35 pm

Westminster Holocaust learning centre must focus on Jews and antisemitism, peers told

There was lengthy and intense debate as the Holocaust Memorial Bill returned to the Lords for its report stage

By Lee Harpin

June 12, 2025, 7:58 am

Holocaust memorial plans spark offensive speech memo in Lords after controversy

Government chief whip in the upper chamber advised members on “the importance of being mindful of the tone of contributions”

By Jewish News Reporter

March 11, 2025, 1:11 pm

OPINION: A barmitzvah, two survivors and the unbreakable chain of memory

As personal recall fades, physical memorials will become ever more important

By Alex Brummer

MP Robert Jenrick (right), with the late Holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott and his grandson Reuben at Victoria Gardens in Westminster in July 2021.

March 11, 2025, 9:16 am

Tory peer apologises for ‘grossly insensitive’ remarks about Jews

Lord Hamilton of Epsom had said Jewish people should ‘pay for their own’ Holocaust memorial because they have ‘an awful lot of money’

By Jewish News Reporter

Ambassador Rozenblat and Porto Holocaust Museum Director Michael Rothwell speaking to hundreds of children in the Hall of Names. Credit: Holocaust Museum of Porto

January 27, 2025, 2:56 pm

‘We have a duty to educate’: Israeli ambassador to Portugal at Holocaust Museum in Porto

Oren Rozenblat addresses one thousand students on Holocaust Memorial Day

By Michelle Rosenberg

The HMD 2025 of AJR in London Belsize Sqaure Synagugue on 20 1 2025. Photos taken by Adam Soller Photography©

January 24, 2025, 1:59 pm

AJR commemorates 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz

Six Holocaust survivors and refugees light candles in remembrance of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis

By Michelle Rosenberg

Ivor-Perl-BEM-and-Renee-Salt-BEM-light-candles-at-Jewish-Cares-Holocaust-Survivors-Centre-and-G2G-Auschwitz-80-years. Pic: Yakir Zur

January 22, 2025, 12:07 pm

Holocaust Survivors’ Centre commemorates 80 years since liberation of Auschwitz

Candles of remembrance lit by Renee Salt, Ivor Perl, Miriam Freedman, Barbara Frankiss, Rachel Levy and Jacques Weisser

By Michelle Rosenberg

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