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October 9, 2024, 11:33 am
King Charles and prime minister lead tributes to Lily Ebert who dies at 100
Trailblazing advocate for Holocaust education whose mother, sister and brother were murdered in the gas chambers, shared her testimony with millions
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: David Wolchover
March 18, 2024, 1:06 pm
OPINION: Against all odds: an epic story of childhood resilience in wartime Poland
As she celebrates her 90th birthday, David Wolchover narrates his cousin’s extraordinary story of survival as a small child in Nazi-occupied Poland.
By David Wolchover
Henry Wuga, May 2022
March 18, 2024, 12:22 pm
Beloved Kindertransport refugee Henry Wuga dies aged 100
Shoah educator who fled Nuremberg in May 1939 celebrated his centenary on 23rd February
By Michelle Rosenberg
Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert with the bronze sculpture by Frances Segelman
May 16, 2023, 3:40 pm
Watch as the extraordinary sculpture of Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert takes shape
World-renowned sculptor Frances Segelman is working with the Yad Vashem Foundation UK to commemorate Shoah survivors in bronze
By Michelle Rosenberg
Natasha-Kaplinsky-with-first-generation-refugees-and-survivors-alongside-International-Holocaust-Testimony-Forum-organisers-Association-of-Jewish-Refugees-and-Lord Pickles. Pic: AJR
April 21, 2023, 10:20 am
‘Sometimes silence says everything’, Kaplinsky tells Holocaust testimony conference
The presenter and newsreader, who has interviewed 112 survivors, movingly addressed a symposium hosted by the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) and partnered by Jewish News.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Ernest and Anita Simon, credit: AJR
February 6, 2023, 11:02 am
Holocaust survivor Ernest Simon passes away, aged 92
Austrian Kindertransport refugee who witnessed Kristallnacht was "erudite and kindly gentleman who will be fondly remembered."
By Michelle Rosenberg
Mia with her dog Lola who now stays by Mariano's side
September 22, 2022, 8:22 am
What really happened to Mia Janin? Her father shares the family’s unspeakable tragedy
Mariano Janin will be alone again on Yom Kippur. In four months he lost the two most important in his life. Some think they know his story, but he wants them to know the truth
By Brigit Grant
Inge Goldrein in 2013
May 30, 2022, 4:59 pm
Kindertransport refugee who became a judge dies aged 91
Inge Goldrein never saw her father again after she was put on a train in Vienna - but her adoptive English parents encouraged her to study at a time when it was rare and she went all the way to become a judge
By Toby Porter
Holocaust survivor Boris Romantschenk who was killed in a Russian attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine, 19 March, 2022 (Twitter)
March 21, 2022, 5:00 pm
96-year-old survivor of four Nazi death camps killed in Ukraine
Boris Romanchenko, who had been detained at the Buchenwald, Peenemunde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen camps, was killed in a Russian attack on Kharkiv on Friday
By Lee Harpin
March 9, 2022, 4:37 pm
Mill Hill family battling to bring Ukrainian Holocaust survivor relative to UK
90 year-old Kateryna Razumenko has been sheltering at a Jewish community centre near Warsaw after fleeing heavy shelling near their home in Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv
By Lee Harpin
Raisa, 90, was reunited with her three granddaughters including Michal (left) in Israel at the airport (Photo: United Hatzalah)
March 7, 2022, 11:29 am
Joy of Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, 90, at reunion with relatives in Israel
Raisa had been living alone in Odessa after her son died of an illness two years ago
By Jewish News Reporter
November 18, 2021, 3:00 pm
Great-grandmother crowned ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ in Jerusalem pageant
The survivors said they could never have dreamed of be able to live the childhoods they never had
By Reuters and Michael Daventry
July 12, 2021, 5:26 pm
Two Auschwitz survivors pass away within a week of each other
Esther Bejarano survived by pretending to play the accordion while David Mermelstein overcame a lifelong reluctance to speak about the atrocities
By Michael Daventry, JTA and Reuters
Istvan Kormendi, 97, who has been practicing medicine for well over 70 years (Photo: Reuters)
March 31, 2021, 11:52 am
VIDEO: The 97-year-old Holocaust survivor still working as a GP
Hungary's antisemitic wartime laws meant Istvan Kormendi had to attend medical school lectures illegally. Today, he's administering COVID-19 vaccines
By Reuters and Michael Daventry
Credit: White House (Twitter)
February 6, 2019, 12:53 pm
US Congress sings happy birthday to Pittsburgh and Shoah survivor Judah Samet
Judah Samet was invited as a special guest to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address
By Mathilde Frot and JTA
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