kristallnacht

December 15, 2021, 11:17 am

Acclaimed journalist John Izbicki, who saw Kristallnacht as a child, dies aged 91

Born Horst Izbicki in Berlin, the long-time education correspondent of the Daily Telegraph was renowned throughout Fleet Street.

By Jewish News Reporter

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

Truus Wijsmuller helped rescue more than 10,000 children during the Second World War from europe - but her incredible story of heroism is relatively unknown

April 29, 2021, 1:15 pm

The little-known ‘female Nicholas Winton’ who saved 10,000 Jewish children

A new documentary explores how unsung heroine Truus Wijsmuller rescued thousands of Jewish children from Europe during the Second World War at great risk to herself

By Francine Wolfisz

Bornplatz synagogue, destroyed on Kristallnacht

March 12, 2021, 11:38 am

Hamburg synagogue rebuild ‘will hide Nazi crimes’

Concern raised by German city's Jewish community saying the proposals are a 'terrible insult' to victims of the Shoah and constitute 'rewriting and erasing its history'

By Jewish News Reporter

January 21, 2021, 10:39 am

120 Over 80 – meet our mentors!

Part two of our celebration of the Jewish community's oldest and wisest.

By Jewish News

November 17, 2020, 11:54 am

CNN anchor: I should not have juxtaposed Kristallnacht to Trump’s conduct

Christiane Amanpour said sorry for comparing the Nazi pogrom against Jews in 1938 to the American President's 'attack on fact'

By Jewish News Reporter

Message of commemoration at Coventry Cathedral (Credit: Sam Churchill)

November 10, 2020, 12:35 pm

Messages projected onto Coventry Cathedral to mark Kristallnacht anniversary

Boris Johnson led the UK's commemoration of antisemitic pogrom in 1938, as places of worship in more than 50 countries join interfaith initiative to battle antisemitism

By Jewish News Reporter

L-R: Danny Danon, Former Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (Archbishop of Constantinople) during March of the Living

November 5, 2020, 5:50 pm

Rabbi Lau: Kristallnacht is a painful reminder of what we have in common

Holocaust survivor and Former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, writes why he is supporting the ‘Let There Be Light’ campaign to remember Kristallnacht

By Rabbi Israel Meir Lau

October 20, 2020, 12:24 pm

Faiths to mark Kristallnacht anniversary by illuminating places of worship

Organised under the #LetThereBeLight hashtag, this year’s virtual campaign invites faiths from around the world to keep their lights on during the night of 9 November

By Jewish News Reporter

Far-right protestors and anti-fascist demonstrators clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.

November 18, 2019, 2:25 pm

Newly-released files reveal far-right plots against shuls across the US

FBI investigation after neo-Nazi slogans and insignia were found daubed on synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin

By Jewish News Reporter

Vandalised headstones at Jewish cemetery in Randers, Denmark

November 12, 2019, 12:50 pm

On Kristallnacht anniversary, 80 graves desecrated at 200-year-old cemetery

British Jews stand in solidarity with their Danish counterparts after the vandalism, saying it is another example of 'worrying and dangerous growth of antisemitism' in Europe

November 11, 2019, 9:48 am

Red substance daubed on Brighton synagogue

The incident happened at the Middle Street Synagogue - a Grade II listed 144-year-old building

Photo by Lyn Julius of red paint which has been thrown over Middle Street Synagogue in Brighton on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht. (Photo credit: PA Wire)

From the WebNovember 10, 2019, 3:03 pm

Red substance daubed on Brighton synagogue

The incident happened at the Middle Street Synagogue - a Grade II listed 144-year-old building - with community leaders calling it a 'cowardly act of vandalism'

November 9, 2019, 10:11 pm

Brazil’s Corinthians team wore Stars of David as a tribute to Kristallnacht

One of the South American country's top sides had symbols on their jerseys to remember the 'Night of the Broken Glass'

By JTA

Still from the film With Heartfelt Gratitude for the Painless Treatment

April 5, 2019, 3:28 pm

Filmmaker captures her Jewish family’s haunted memories of LA, Cairo and Berlin

Anya Lewin spoke to Jewish News about her trilogy of films screened at the John Hansard Gallery

By Mathilde Frot

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