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Image: Storytellers see their paperback books for the first time at the My Voice Kristallnacht event at John Rylands Institute and Library
October 16, 2026, 1:49 pm
The Fed’s My Voice awarded £705k National Lottery Heritage Fund grant
Community story-telling project publishes the full life stories of UK based Holocaust Survivors and refugees
By Michelle Rosenberg
On October 23, 102-year-old Holocaust survivor, World War II veteran, and Guinness World Record holder Walter Bingham will skydive from 13,000 feet near Masada to raise funds for lone soldiers and B'not Sherut in Israel. Walter previously skydived at age 100 (pictured)
October 16, 2026, 10:58 am
102-year-old Kindertransport survivor to skydive for Israel’s lone soldiers
Walter Bingham will make the jump at Bar Yehuda airfield, near the ancient fortress of Masada and the Dead Sea
By Michelle Rosenberg
Professor Henri B. Kagan (Credit: Creative Commons/Ecole polytechnique )
October 8, 2026, 1:03 pm
French Holocaust survivor wins 2026 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Henri B. Kagan, 95, shared the prize with Kenso Soai
By JN Reporter
Yehuda Aharon Widawski, Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor, has died aged 107 (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
September 14, 2026, 11:07 am
Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 107
Auschwitz survivor Yehuda Widawski identified thousands of lost Jewish graves and helped restore Łódź’s historic Jewish cemetery
By Annabel Sinclair
Emergency services evacuate residents of a Jewish retirement home in Munich after it was targeted in an arson attack on February 13, 1970, in which seven Holocaust survivors were killed. (IMAGO/Heinz Gebhardt via Reuters Connect)
August 21, 2026, 11:21 am
Arsonist with ‘Hitler fixation’ identified 56 years after deadly blaze
Discovery too late for justice: 25-year-old neo-Nazi who set fire to a Jewish community centre in Munich in 1970 died in 2020
By Michelle Rosenberg
Harry Heber holds his original registration document from the 1930s. Photo Credit: World Jewish Relief
August 12, 2026, 12:25 pm
Kindertransport refugee and ‘legend’ volunteer Harry Heber dies aged 95
The Holocaust survivor devoted decades to helping others, after escaping Austria for Britain aged seven
By Annabel Sinclair
Benno Kern appears in a scene from the immersive mixed-reality Holocaust education experience Benno’s Light.
June 4, 2026, 4:25 pm
Holocaust survivor’s story brought to life in new virtual reality experience
Claims Conference launches immersive project following Benno Kern from Vienna to Auschwitz and liberation
By Annabel Sinclair
Nova Exhibition Photos - Photo Credit_ George Pimentel
May 22, 2026, 9:29 am
Shabbat Shalom: To Those Who Carry Sinai Into the Modern World
The challenge facing Jews today is not simply how we survive hatred, but whether we continue to stand visibly and proudly for truth, memory and Jewish continuity in spite of it
By Leo Pearlman
Harry Spiro speaking to students (Credit: HET)
May 18, 2026, 3:41 pm
Harry Spiro’s family was his biggest reward and strongest revenge
Holocaust survivor Harry Spiro has died at the age of 96. Holocaust Educational Trust chief executive Karen Pollock pays tribute to a remarkable man
By Karen Pollock CBE
Dr Bea Lewkowicz. Photo: PA
May 14, 2026, 1:38 pm
Jewish filmmaker told by Prince of Wales ‘it’s important to preserve the truth’
Prince William praised the AJR filmmaker’s work documenting survivor testimony amid growing concerns over Holocaust distortion and antisemitism
By JN Reporter
Joan Salter, Pic: Sam Churchill and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
February 19, 2026, 4:18 pm
We must not let the distorters define Holocaust Memorial Day
The best way to counter those who seek to silence us is not to shout into the void of their making
By Joan Salter MBE
Students perform alongside recorded testimony of Holocaust survivor and Windermere Child Harry Olmer during the Holocaust Memorial Day tribute at the Royal Ballet School.
January 27, 2026, 7:44 pm
Students honour Windermere Child Harry Olmer in Holocaust Memorial Day performance
Multi-faith student performance marking 80 years since Windermere Children is dedicated to Holocaust survivor Harry Olmer MBE
By Annabel Sinclair
January 21, 2026, 9:52 am
Carrying the legacy of my grandmother’s Holocaust survival
Tabitha Steemson writes about her grandmother, Agnes Kaposi
By Tabitha Steemson
Harry Olmer MBE speaking at an event at the Home office. Photo Credit: HET
January 16, 2026, 2:55 pm
It is up to us to carry Harry Olmer’s legacy onwards
Harry was in the truest sense of the word, a mensch. In his passing we have lost a friend and a guiding voice
By Karen Pollock CBE
Windermere child Harry Olmer
January 15, 2026, 4:05 pm
Harry Olmer, Holocaust survivor and Windermere Boy, dies aged 98
Educator and Mill Hill figure rebuilt a Jewish life after surviving Nazi forced labour camps
By Annabel Sinclair
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