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March 20, 2023, 5:10 pm

80 years on, Israeli flag flies over site of Warsaw Ghetto uprising

British-Israeli activist honours the Jewish warriors who stood their ground for nine days

By Michelle Rosenberg

April 11, 2021, 10:09 am

First housing project for elderly righteous launches in Belarus

British-Israeli activist Jonny Daniels helps raise tens-of-thousands to help 90-year-old Lyubov Arkhiptsova-Volchek, who saved a Jewish girl, 11, in Belarus during the Shoah

By JTA

March 10, 2021, 4:47 pm

Fundraising campaign launched to buy righteous woman, 90, a new flat

Lyubov Volchek helped to save Olga Shulman, 11, in 1941, but a British-Israeli activist says she's now 'living in incredibly poor conditions' in her Belorussian town

By Jack Mendel

Jonny Daniels (second left) with Righteous Among the Nations in Poland. Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg is third from the right.

December 1, 2020, 3:54 pm

Shoah commemoration group launches campaign to support dwindling Righteous

With just one percent of Righteous Among the Nations still alive, From the Depths looks to help elderly heroes who put their lives at risk to save Jews

By Tali Fraser

Jonny Daniels delivers Jozef Walaszczyk, right, a cake on his 101st birthday in Warsaw, Poland on Nov. 12, 2020. (From the Depths)

November 14, 2020, 5:29 pm

Holocaust rescuer’s 101st birthday draws video greetings from 49 countries

British-born activist Jonny Daniels arranged for well-wishers to send messages from across the world to righteous man Jozef Walaszczyk

By JTA

Jonny Daniels pictured with Dagmar Mozolová

August 7, 2020, 10:31 am

Slovak journalist memorialises Righteous

Dagmar Mozolová of Radio Slovensko has told the stories of 138 Slovaks honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

By Jewish News Reporter

March 22, 2020, 1:07 pm

Brit’s Shoah memorial group delivers food to righteous Poles at risk from virus

From the Depths converted its small fleet of four taxis into a delivery service that is designed to fulfil the recipients’ basic needs

By JTA

Group of Righteous Among The Nations in front of the Silent Hero taxi being driven by Holocaust Survivor Edward Mosberg (Credit: From the Depths/ Jonny Daniels)

February 5, 2020, 4:16 pm

In Warsaw, Poles who rescued Jews during the Shoah have a free taxi service

In a country where the monthly old-age pension is about £430, many cannot get around cheaply. One activist is saying thank you to those who saved Jews, by giving them free rides

By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)

Sylwia Spurek last year, centre, tweet screengrab left
(Credits: Piotr Sokołowsk, wikimedia commons, www.commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79774522; Twitter screengrab)

January 22, 2020, 11:47 am

Polish MEP refuses to apologise over image of cattle in Nazi camp uniforms

EU Parliamentarian Sylwia Spurek defended her record on human rights after sharing the cartoon entitled 'When will we ever learn?'

By Mathilde Frot

Daniels (third from left) with elderly Albanians affected by the earthquake

December 20, 2019, 1:43 pm

Jewish group to repair earthquake-struck family home of righteous Albanian

British-Israeli activist Jonny Daniels and his From The Depths Foundation will help mend the house of Muhamet Bicaku, 83, which was devastated in the recent natural disaster

By JTA

October 16, 2019, 3:25 pm

Righteous Albanian Muslim, 93, to be honoured in Poland for rescuing Jews

Xhemal Veseli will be recognised for his efforts during the Shoah, as commemoration group looks to unearth more stories of heroism in the region

By JTA and Jewish News Reporter

August 10, 2019, 7:08 pm

UK Shoah activist euologises Polish righteous woman, 102, as a ‘beacon of light’

After helping to fund a bed for Krystyna Danko, who was both blind and deaf, Jonny Daniels paid tribute to her as 'an angel of goodness and righteousness'

By JTA

July 20, 2019, 7:18 pm

UK activist helps survivor buy hospital bed for world’s oldest Righteous, 102

Jonny Daniels of From the Depths launched fundraising campaign, as Israeli survivor Joe Erlichster, 75, helps support non-Jewish centenarian Krystyna Danko

By JTA and Jewish News Reporter

June 24, 2019, 3:06 pm

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejects invite to tour Auschwitz with Shoah survivor

Democrat politician turns down offer by 93-year-old Edward Mosberg and UK born Holocaust education activist Jonny Daniels

By JTA

June 23, 2019, 12:05 am

Holocaust survivor invites Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tour Auschwitz

British-born activist and Edward Mosberg, 93, invite top Democrat in wake of her using the term 'concentration camps' to describe Trump's migrant detention centres

By JTA