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Holocaust Survivors
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Dr Martin Stern give evidence on Wednesday in the House of Commons
January 24, 2024, 11:31 pm
‘This is idiotic’: Holocaust survivors give evidence about proposed memorial
At a meeting of MPs on the Holocaust Memorial Bill select committee four survivors opposed to the project air their concerns alongside those of Baroness Deech and historian Sir Richard Evans
By Beatrice Sayers
The proposed memorial and an aerial view of Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster
January 24, 2024, 8:34 pm
VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS: Holocaust memorial is 10 years on the drawing board
MPs must heed the valid concerns of architects, a terrorism expert, the group Save Victoria Tower Gardens and four Shoah survivors, the eldest of them 98-year-old Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who have voiced their objections to current proposals for a memorial and learning centre
By Voice of the Jewish News
Adi Efrat in north London on 10 November 2023. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg
November 22, 2023, 5:05 pm
OPINION: Our Jewish future depends on knowing the present
'Our generation must ensure the evil of 7th October 2023 shall be passed on as historical fact, not dumped to the pile of fake news', writes Rabbi Naftali Schiff
By Rabbi Naftali Schiff
My Voice
August 9, 2023, 1:13 pm
Lottery Fund awards £246k to unique Holocaust survivor project
Yad Vashem describes The Fed’s "My Voice" project in Manchester as "globally unique"
By Michelle Rosenberg
Holocaust survivors Manfred Goldberg and Zigi Shipper (right) attend an exhibition at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, of 'Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust', which were commissioned by the Prince of Wales to pay tribute to Holocaust survivors. Picture date: Monday January 24, 2022.
December 8, 2022, 1:46 pm
Yad Vashem UK and The Fed to extend Holocaust survivor testimony project in UK
The UK arm of Israel's Holocaust museum teams up with Manchester-based Jewish organisation to capture the stories of survivors in London
By Jewish News Reporter
Joe Biden meets Holocaust survivors at Yad Vashem
July 14, 2022, 11:23 am
‘Never had fun in Yad Vashem before’ — Biden bends knee to meet Holocaust survivors
The US president dispensed both with social distancing and the chair laid out for him to meet 86-year-old Rene Quint and Giselle Cycowicz, 95
By Michael Daventry and JTA
May 25, 2022, 2:55 pm
Website of Holocaust survivor photos by Duchess of Cambridge goes live
Pictures - the result of project led by Jewish News, Royal Photographic Society and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust - are on display at the Imperial War Museum and UNESCO.
By Justin Cohen
Clara Drummond and Manfred Goldberg (credit Angel Li and BBC Studios)
January 12, 2022, 12:02 am
Prince Charles commissions artists to paint portraits of seven Shoah survivors
The project will be the subject of an hour-long programme on the BBC to be will be aired on Holocaust Memorial Day this month.
By Jewish News
Survivors and their relatives walk through the gates of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp to attend the 75th anniversary of its liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 6, 2021, 11:11 am
More Holocaust survivors to receive pension payments from Germany
Claims Conference says the £320 monthly sum was symbolic but ‘provides recognition and restores a piece of dignity’
By Michael Daventry
Steven Frank BEM, aged 84, with his granddaughters Maggie and Trixie. Steven survived multiple concentration camps as a child. (© The Duchess of Cambridge. )
May 17, 2021, 4:26 pm
Duchess of Cambridge’s survivor photographs for JN to be part of IWM exhibit
More than 50 survivors and their families have been photographed for display conceived by Jewish News opening on 6 August
By Justin Cohen
Walter Kammerling and Marc Schatzberger
February 3, 2021, 12:19 pm
Tributes paid to two Kindertransport refugees who have died aged 97 and 94
Holocaust Educational Trust pays respects to Walter Kammerling and Marc Schatzberger, who escaped the Nazis as young children before rebuilding their lives in the UK
Holocaust survivors featured in Matt Writtle's book, Portraits for Posterity, which is published on 16 November
November 13, 2020, 11:47 am
Faces of survival
Photographer Matt Writtle commemorates 101 Holocaust survivors in his new book, Portraits For Posterity
By Francine Wolfisz
Holocaust survivor at the Bergen-Belsen memorial.
July 4, 2019, 3:44 pm
Survivors get more aid and rescuers benefits, under new German scheme
Agreements negotiated by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany provides a £39m increase in funding for social welfare services for survivors
By JTA
Left to Right are: Scott Saunders (Chairman, March of the Living UK), Eve Kugler, Arek Hersh, Chief Rabbi, Jean Hersh, Mala Tribich, Cassie Matus (CEO, March of the Living UK), Agnes Kaposki. (Blake Ezra Photography)
June 25, 2019, 3:24 pm
Chief Rabbi Mirvis introduces new prayer for Holocaust survivors
Composed by Bernard Pentol, 82, from Wembley United Synagogue, the new prayer will be read each week during services at Jewish Care facilities
By Jewish News Reporter
Holocaust survivor portraits have holes cut into them. Credit: Luigi Toscano on Facebook
May 27, 2019, 5:41 pm
Portraits of Holocaust survivors on Vienna street vandalised again
Exhibition of pictures taken by German-Italian photographer and filmmaker Luigi Toscano have holes cut into them, weeks after antisemitic graffiti daubed on them
By JTA
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