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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a joint press conference with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President following their talks in Moscow on March 24, 2022. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / POOL / AFP)
May 5, 2022, 10:32 am
OPINION: You can’t judge people by their ancestry
Would it stop Hitler being a monster if he had Jewish blood?
By Derek Taylor
Miriam Cates MP and Peter Gibson MP with Auschwitz survivor Arek Hersh MBE and his wife Jean at Birkenau (Jewish News)
May 3, 2022, 12:01 pm
OPINION: We dispel division when we deepen understanding
Miriam Cates MP and Peter Gibson MP visited Auschwitz and Birkenau for this year's March of the Living, meeting survivors and hearing personal testimonies.
By Miriam Cates MP & Peter Gibson MP
Annalisa Dorzback (right) with sister, Charlotte (left).
May 3, 2022, 11:02 am
OPINION: My great aunt’s story is a powerful testimony in the face of nationalism and terror
Images of Ukrainian women and children carrying possessions in prams, waiting for trains to take them to safety, stir the collective memory of the Jewish community.
By Bella Wallersteiner
2J6B6D8 Polish President Andrzej Duda (R) seen with a survivor of the holocaust Edward Mosberg (L) as they arrive to lay a wreath during the International March of The Living. International March of The Living from KL Auschwitz to KL2 Birkenau. Over 3000 of Jews from all over the world came to Oswiecim to participate in the International March of the Living. It is a commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust. The Polish president Andrzej Duda took part in this event. (Photo by Wojciech Grabowski / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
May 2, 2022, 11:28 am
A place that still defies articulation
Jewish News joined British survivors Arek Hersh, Eve Kugler, Harry Olmer, Mala Tribich, Alfred Garwood, Agnes Kaposi and Barbara Frankess as March of the Living returned.
By Nicole Lampert at Auschwitz
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.
April 29, 2022, 1:30 pm
Government appeals court decision to quash Holocaust memorial planning permission
Move comes after campaigners won a stunning court battle to scupper plans for a national Holocaust memorial outside Parliament.
By Adam Decker
Survivor Mala Tribich at Bergen-Belsen
April 28, 2022, 4:40 pm
British Holocaust survivor accuses UK of leaving fellow expats to mercy of the Nazis
"The British wartime government left Jews with British citizenship to rot away in Belsen," reveals Jack Santcross, whose family is “still affected by the betrayal”.
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Manfred Goldberg meets the Duchess of Cambridge earlier this year 2022 (Jewish News)
April 28, 2022, 1:41 pm
Holocaust survivors take part in ‘100 Words’ project
Manfred Goldberg told Jewish News: "The most effective way of educating young people is the voice of a survivor who can speak in the first person."
By Jenni Frazer
Holocasut survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova, pictured in the 1990s (Photo: USC Shoah Foundation)
April 28, 2022, 9:01 am
Shoah Foundation shares ‘lost’ testimony of Holocaust survivor who died in Mariupol
Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova uses the interview to describe her childhood experiences navigating the war.
By JTA
Ben Caplan as xxx and xx as Himmler
April 27, 2022, 6:09 pm
A Hidden Holocaust Hero at Park Theatre
Ben Brown's new play tells a staggering World War II story that is unknown to most
By Jenni Frazer
Gwyneth Paltrow (Jewish News)
April 22, 2022, 10:11 am
Gwyneth Paltrow funds her Jewish ancestors’ cemetery in Poland
The informational signboard will recount the history of the Jewish community in Nowogród.
By JTA
April 22, 2022, 10:11 am
Powerful new film about a Holocaust-survivor-turned-boxer pulls no punches
Actor Ben Foster plays real-life Auschwitz-survivor-turned-professional-boxer Harry Haft, forced to confront the inescapable fact of his existence.
By JTA
March of the Living in Poland (Jewish News)
April 22, 2022, 9:21 am
Ukrainian refugees to join March of the Living
2,500 people from 25 countries are due to attend this year's event.
By JTA
Azeem Rafiq with Shoah survivor Lily Ebert and Dovie Forman (Jewish News)
April 21, 2022, 10:16 am
Rafiq to join March of the Living
The former professional cricketer said: "I am passionate about understanding all I can about the Holocaust."
By Jenni Frazer
Kitchener Camp in Sandwich, Kent, was set up in 1939 as a ‘haven’ for refugees (Jewish News)
April 21, 2022, 9:42 am
Concert to recall Kitchener Camp
The story of Kitchener Camp is not as well known as that of the Kindertransport, but it made its mark on a large number of people. 
By Jenni Frazer
Marvin Chomsky wins Outstanding Directing in a drama series for 'Holocaust' in 1978. (Screenshot)
April 20, 2022, 11:32 am
Director of the influential TV series ‘Holocaust’ dies at 92
Marvin Chomsky's documentary attracted upwards of 120 million viewers and helped spark broad public dialogue around the causes and consequences of the Holocaust.
By JTA
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