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Frank Auerbach
November 13, 2024, 12:22 pm
Frank Auerbach, British-German painter who fled the Nazis, dies aged 93
'It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint'. Tributes pour in to 'one of the few great and seminal artists of our time'
By Michelle Rosenberg
Schindler surrounded by his survivors during a visit to Israel in the 1960's. Pic; Yad Vashem
September 30, 2024, 3:20 pm
Rare pre-World War II document signed by Oscar Schindler sells for £15,000
Bids for car insurance policy of hero who saved 1,200 Jewish employees from the Nazis started at £12k
By Michelle Rosenberg
Holocaust Centre North, Pic: Michelle Rosenberg
September 25, 2024, 2:40 pm
Holocaust Centre North shares stories of British disabled people murdered by Nazis
Launching on 2 October, exhibit highlights Nazi state-led programme Aktion T4 which murdered those with disabilities and mental illnesses
By Michelle Rosenberg
Oscar Schindler, Pic: Wikipedia
September 23, 2024, 1:05 pm
Rare document signed by Oscar Schindler to be auctioned
Bidding starts at £12k for car insurance policy of hero who saved 1,200 Jewish employees from the Nazis
By Michelle Rosenberg
Belarus' servicemen excavate a mass grave for the prisoners of a Jewish ghetto set up by the Nazis during World War II in the city of Brest. Sergei Gapon/Getty
September 19, 2024, 11:52 am
Holocaust mass grave found in Belarus
The remains of 12 adults and 11 children were uncovered in Strešyn, a town occupied by the Nazis, where Jews accounted for nearly 30% of the population in 1939
By Michelle Rosenberg
Lily Ebert speaking at a Holocaust Educational Trust dinner
September 13, 2024, 10:51 am
OPINION: Finding hope in a new generation
As we approach the anniversary of 7 October the words of the Hatikvah ring truer than ever, writes Karen Pollock
By Karen Pollock
Dov Forman
September 11, 2024, 4:53 pm
OPINION: What we face today is the “Israelification” of antisemitism
Children are taught to hate from a young age, perpetuating a cycle of violence and prejudice that pushes any hope of peace even further away, says Dov Forman to the Austrian Parliament
By Dov Forman
Photo credit: TSKZ
September 3, 2024, 4:22 pm
March of the Living marks 80 years since liquidation of Lodz ghetto
Two Holocaust survivors among the hundreds retracing steps of the 200,000 Jews who passed through Nazi Europe's second-largest ghetto
By Michelle Rosenberg
Judith Kerr's The Tiger Who Came to Tea has been adapted into an animation and will air on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve
September 2, 2024, 3:43 pm
OPINION: The question of how the Holocaust is represented in art is a thorny one
Judith Kerr found a way to write about Germany in the 1930s in a manner that was informative, funny and relatable without ever diminishing the seriousness of what occurred, writes Darren Richman
By Darren Richman
A mural of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh in Bergen, Norway, painted by the anonymous artist Töddel, July 2024. (Courtesy of Töddel)
August 8, 2024, 11:06 am
OPINION: Defiling Anne’s memory does nothing for Gaza
As the Anne Frank statue in Amsterdam is vandalized with "Free Gaza" for the second time in a month, it's tragic that we have to work so hard to protect her memory
By Karen Pollock
"Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks) laid in Frankfurt, German(AP Photo/Michael Probst)
July 16, 2024, 3:43 pm
Channel Isles to remember Nazi victims with Stolpersteine ‘stumbling stones’
Guernsey and Jersey to install commemorative brass plaques at last known addresses of those persecuted during war
By Jenni Frazer
D-Day - Pic: Imperial War Museum
June 6, 2024, 11:07 am
OPINION: D-Day at 80: the Jewish heroes who helped secure victory
Celebrating the Jewish Servicemen and Women who gave so much 80 years ago
By Dan Fox
Germans inspecting harbour from Fort Albert on Alderney Island
May 22, 2024, 3:41 pm
Government apology for lack of prosecutions over Nazi atrocities in Alderney
UK's Post-Holocaust envoy Eric Pickles releases landmark report into events on Channel Islands
By Jenni Frazer
Vienna HaKoah football shirt
May 20, 2024, 11:19 am
Euros fans to attend Holocaust exhibit in 1936 Olympic stadium that Hitler built
The display - which opens this week - will run throughout football's European Championships in Germany this summer
By Jenni Frazer
Father Francis Wahle. Pic; AJR
May 16, 2024, 1:59 pm
Kindertransport refugee and priest Francis Wahle dies, aged 94
Baptised as a child, the Catholic minister only discovered his Jewish ancestry when he was forced to flee the Nazis in Vienna
By Michelle Rosenberg
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