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Manfred Goldberg at the Kristallnacht commemoration 2024 of AJR in London Belsize Square Synagogue on 7 11 2024. Photos taken by Adam Soller Photography©
November 12, 2024, 4:03 pm
Holocaust survivors and descendants commemorate Kristallnacht
'I remember my heart sinking and body trembling': survivor Manfred Goldberg gives eyewitness account of 1938 pogrom
By Michelle Rosenberg
Marianne Bern and the key she kept from the Bielefeld synagogue that was destroyed on Kristallnacht. (Courtesy of Jennifer Bern-Vogel)
November 11, 2024, 9:52 pm
Survivor kept key from a German shul destroyed on Kristallnacht. Now the relic is returning home
An American cantor’s mother held onto the key — and her memories — after the Nazis destroyed her community
By Jacob Gurvis (JTA)
Jack Mann former SAS special forces veteran lays wreath at Jewish Care Remebrance Sunday service photo by Yakir Zur
November 11, 2024, 2:50 pm
Veterans pay their respects at Jewish Care remembrance services
'I can’t say I’m a hero.' says 99-year-old Jack Mann, the last remaining member of his regiment
By Michelle Rosenberg
Charlotte Knobloch sharing memories of Kristallnacht
October 30, 2024, 3:29 pm
Meta joins virtual reality project to tell story of Kristallnacht horrors
Holocaust survivor leads viewers through immersive virtual reality experience of Munich 1938
By Jenni Frazer
Danny standing in front of the Quaker Meetinghouse Manchester – he was able to come to Britain because of the sponsorship by the Quakers
January 18, 2024, 11:10 am
How ‘Kindertransport 2’ saved thousands of lives
The 85th anniversary of Kitchener Camp this weekend recalls the story of a remarkable wartime rescue project for Europe’s Jews.
By Adam Decker
Walter Bingham celebrating his hundredth birthday on January 4, 2023. (Credit: International March of the Living)
January 4, 2024, 2:43 pm
Kindertransport survivor celebrates centenary birthday in Jerusalem
Walter Bingham, the world's oldest active journalist, says he "could never have imagined that at the age of 100 I would be a witness to the horrific pogrom against Jews that took place on October 7"
By Michelle Rosenberg
Michael Rothwell the director of the Holocaust and the Jewish museums in Porto (left) and Sebastião Feyo (right) president of the Porto municipal assembly, with the school students (credit: CIP/CJP).
November 9, 2023, 3:42 pm
Hundreds of schoolchildren from Portugal commemorate Kristallnacht
Students from across the country visited the Holocaust Museum in Porto to remember the series of pogroms in Germany on 9 November 1938
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pedestrians viewing a Jewish-owned store in Berlin damaged during Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938.
November 9, 2023, 10:32 am
85 years on from Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors say they again feel unsafe as Jews
In testimonies released for the anniversary of the ‘Night of Broken Glass’, survivors from around the world call out for help in fighting rising antisemitism
By Michelle Rosenberg
Kristallnacht
November 9, 2023, 9:32 am
Virtual reality experience to mark 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht
Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch's testimony takes the viewer on a personal journey
By Jenni Frazer
Daniel Sheffer with Hamburg's Chief Rabbi Bistritzky,right
September 29, 2023, 11:36 am
Torah crown looted from shul during Kristallnacht discovered in German antique shop
The crown of the Bornplatz Synagogue now has pride of place in Hamburg Jewish community's temporary shul ahead of its £113million planned reconstruction
By Michelle Rosenberg
The Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany, once held 1,200 congregants before it was destroyed in Kristallnacht. (Wikimedia Commons)
September 29, 2023, 11:33 am
85 years after Kristallnacht, Germany to begin rebuilding grand synagogue in Hamburg
The site of the Bornplatz Synagogue was officially handed over to leaders of the city’s Jewish community on Wednesday.
By Jackie Hadjenburg (JTA)
Ivor Perl BEM, member of Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivors' Centre, interviewed by Dov Forman at Jewish Care Holocaust Survivors' Centre Fundraising Dinner. Pic: JUSTIN GRAINGE
September 27, 2023, 10:17 am
Rachel Riley hosts Holocaust Survivors’ Centre dinner for Jewish Care
The event at St. John's Wood synagogue featured guest speaker Maureen Lipman and raised £150k to support survivors and refugees
By Michelle Rosenberg
Alice Fraser has died at the age of 103 years old. Pic: AJR
June 14, 2023, 5:04 pm
Tributes to 103-year-old Holocaust survivor Alice Fraser
The great-grandmother of 11 fled Germany in 1939 and was interned on the Isle of Man as an ‘enemy alien’
By Michelle Rosenberg
Frances Segelman creates live bust sculpture of Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler, June 2023
June 9, 2023, 11:30 am
92-year old Shoah survivor Eve Kugler honoured with live sculpture
Renowned artist Frances Segelman creates bust in front of live audience as part of a series of Holocaust survivor bronzes
By Michelle Rosenberg
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover. (PA)
March 22, 2023, 12:30 pm
OPINION: Overpaid pundit Lineker has debased vital debate
His sympathy for asylum seekers is to be admired. But Gary Lineker's ignorance in comparing events in the UK to 1930s Germany was unconscionable, writes Alex Brummer
By Alex Brummer
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