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

May 12, 2023, 5:42 pm

OPINION: It’s high time we sorted out this memorial muddle

"If ever this project comes to fruition, there will be no survivors left to see it," writes Jenni Frazer on London's proposed Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre

By Jenni Frazer

Photographer Arthur Edwards with his portrait of Zigi Shipper's family

January 26, 2023, 11:27 am

‘Zigi looked at his family picture on the wall every day to celebrate his survival’

Royal photographer Arthur Edwards, who took an extraordinary portrait of Zigi Shipper's family, says the survivor, who died last week, wanted the image to show Hitler: "I survived. I won."

By Michelle Rosenberg

New audio guides at the Holocaust Centre North in Huddersfield

December 20, 2022, 4:09 pm

New audio guides for Holocaust Centre North help picture ‘what isn’t there’

Two artists have used the recollections of local Holocaust survivors to produce contemporary audio guides for Huddersfield site

By Jewish News Reporter

The Duchess of Cambridge during a visit the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London to officially open two new galleries, the Second World War Gallery and the Holocaust Gallery.

November 10, 2021, 6:08 pm

Duchess of Cambridge officially opens new Holocaust exhibit at Imperial War Museum

Kate saw the Generations: Portraits Of Holocaust Survivors exhibition which includes two photographic portraits she took last year to mark 75 years since the end of the Shoah.

By Justin Cohen

Preservation Technician Emily Thomas cleans a rail wagon of the type used to transport victims to death camps. Pictured in The Holocaust Gallery at IWM London, Lambeth Road.
Photographed 30th Sept 2021

October 12, 2021, 12:24 pm

‘Unseen objects, untold stories and unheard voices’ at new IWM Shoah gallery

Items on display at the Imperial War Museum's new exhibition include Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel’s wedding dress from her marriage in Belsen and 'last letters' flung from trains by Jews on their way to death camps

By Jenni Frazer

Rabbi Nicky Liss with the prayer shawl which museum officials asked him to help install

October 11, 2021, 3:19 pm

Rabbi installs prayer shawl at new IWM Holocaust gallery

Rabbi Nicky Liss helped to install the tallit with curators where it will form part of the Imperial War Museum's new £30m Holocaust gallery.

By Jewish News Reporter

Holocaust survivors gather at the Jewish News sponsored event (© Derryn Vranch / Royal Photographic Society)

September 21, 2021, 6:39 pm

Largest gathering of UK Holocaust survivors for two years at IWM exhibition

Survivors were joined by the deputy ambassador of UAE and the Shadow Communities Secretary at a private viewing of a exhibition of photographs featuring them and their families

By Josh Salisbury

Zigi Shipper’s family portrait taken in stages and later pieced together by a graphic artist. Credit: Arthur Edwards

July 29, 2021, 1:23 pm

The faces of survival: Poignant portraits show life after the Holocaust

A new exhibition featuring the works of 13 photographers - including the Duchess of Cambridge and The Sun's royal photographer Arthur Edwards - opens at the Imperial War Museum

By Francine Wolfisz

The Holocaust Galleries team recently acquired a section of a barrack from Velten, a sub-camp first of Ravensbruck, and later Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

May 7, 2021, 11:01 am

Concentration camp barracks to be displayed at new IWM Holocaust gallery

Museum bosses have unveiled details of the £30m project and announced it will open on 20 October.

By Josh Salisbury

Montague Burton, a Jewish immigrant, opened his first shop in 1904, the company later becoming one of Britain’s biggest clothing retailers. The photo was found in West Yorkshire Archives is among the 25 collections to feature in the new Hidden Treasures website, which will be unveiled on Sunday.

July 23, 2020, 9:23 am

Website launched sharing history of Jews in Britain

The Hidden Treasures website also features contemporary material being compiled to chronicle the Jewish community’s experience of, and response to, the coronavirus pandemic.

By Stephen Oryszczuk

May 8, 2020, 11:36 am

German-born Jew who was captured working for Britain remembered on VE Day

Stephen Dale - born Heinz Spanglet in Berlin, 1917 - is included on the Imperial War Museum's Voices Of War project to remember victory over the Nazis

August 15, 2019, 2:46 pm

Something for the weekend!

We pick out family attractions happening in London this weekend to help you get out and about!

By Francine Wolfisz

David Baddiel kicks of Light From The Dark at Stamford Bridge in aid of the Imperial War Museum, partnered by Jewish News and Chelsea FC

April 5, 2019, 12:48 pm

Chelsea and Jewish News team up to aid Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Galleries

More than 350 people at Stamford Bridge hear from survivors, Robert Rinder and club chairman Bruce Buck on an emotional night hosted by David Baddiel.

By Jewish News Reporter

Panelists including Lord Pickles (speaking on the right), Olivia Marks-Woldman of HMDT, historian Trudy Gold and Henry Grunwald of the National Holocaust Centre (Credit: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust)

March 20, 2019, 1:05 pm

Ten leading Holocaust experts debate if Shoah education has failed

After heated discussion lasting almost two hours, panel of experts conclude that there was more work to do in the field of Holocaust education

By Jenni Frazer

The King with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

Photo credit: Frank Augstein/PA Wire

January 17, 2019, 12:14 am

Prince Charles’ heartfelt letter ahead of London funeral for Shoah victims

Heir to the throne offers his condolences and pledges never to forget victims in letter to the Chief Rabbi

By Jewish News Reporter

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