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September 27, 2023, 4:02 pm

OPINION: Journey of remembrance had reached a crucial juncture

Alex Brummer reflects on the power of media in confronting the horrors of the past

By Alex Brummer

"One Life", featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton. Pic: Warner Brothers

September 11, 2023, 5:03 pm

One Life: first trailer for Sir Nicholas Winton biopic featuring Anthony Hopkins

Movie starring Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn and Jonathan Pryce honours life of war-hero and 'British Schindler' who saved hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in 1939

By Michelle Rosenberg

Documents on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII are seen at the Vatican Secret Archives in Vatican City, Vatican, February 27, 2020. The Vatican Apostolic Library opened the Holy See’s wartime archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII between the years 1939 to 1958. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

September 8, 2023, 9:28 am

Newly-discovered document lists 3,000 Jews the Catholic Church sheltered from Nazis

Jewish historian of the Vatican urges caution as the papers have not yet been released to the public for closer inspection

By Andrew Lapin (JTA)

Jews liberated from a train bound for Theresienstadt

August 10, 2023, 8:36 am

Imperial War Museum’s verdict on unearthed Holocaust footage from April 1945

EXCLUSIVE: The film, revealed last week by the National Archives in the United States, shows three cattle car trains, each with 2,500 survivors on board, bound for Theresienstadt.

By Daniel Pesin

Germans inspecting harbour from Fort Albert on Alderney Island

July 28, 2023, 12:48 pm

Expert panel to investigate deaths at Alderney Nazi concentration camps

Group of 11 to assess numbers of Holocaust victims on British soil as part of first ever formal review into numbers of prisoners murdered by the Nazis in the Channel Islands

By Michelle Rosenberg

Harry Kaufman and Jules Konopinski - original members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist activist group ‘The 43 Group’ - at the launch of We Fight Fascists

July 17, 2023, 5:20 pm

One of the last survivors of legendary anti-fascist fighters the 43 Group dies

Jules Konopinski, who was 93, came to Britain with his mother in 1939, escaping the Nazis “by the skin of my teeth”.

By Jenni Frazer

June 30, 2023, 4:26 pm

From Nazi Europe to Wimbledon – how a Jewish tennis prodigy made her way to Centre Court

Liesl Herbst fled the Nazis and ended up playing championship tennis in the UK with her daughter

By Neil Silver

In conversation with Sobibor survivor Philip Bialowitz

May 19, 2023, 11:59 am

OPINION: I owe it to Philip and the six million to redouble my efforts

Writes Paul Giannasi, trustee at the Holocaust Memorial Trust, reflects on the reasons behind his visit this week to Auschwitz and the Polish town of Tarnów.

By Paul Giannasi

Mala Tribich addressing the March of the Living group at the Temple synagogue in Krakow. Pic: HMDT

April 17, 2023, 12:12 pm

OPINION: The fight against oppression continues, 80 years after the Warsaw uprising

The 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is a fitting opportunity to humanise Nazi victims and resistance fighters, writes Rachel Century of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

By Rachel Century

April 3, 2023, 8:04 am

Former private boarder who posted neo-Nazi video spared jail

Oliver Riley, 19, was found to have uploaded 23 videos on BitChute which were “racist, homophobic, glorify Nazism and terrorist attacks”, according to the prosecutor.

By JN Reporter

La Ronde Enfantine. (Beneath the Trees at Port-Bertaud: Children Dancing). Courbet, Gustave (French, 1819-1877). Oil on canvas, height 66.5cm, width 52.1cm, circa 1862. Pic: The Fitzwilliam Museum

March 30, 2023, 4:11 pm

Cambridge museum to hand over 19th century painting stolen by Nazis

Oil landscape by French realist Gustave Courbet was seized in occupied Paris in 1941

By JN Reporter

The late Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper with his grandson Darren Richman at his home in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

March 30, 2023, 3:47 pm

OPINION: My dear grandfather Zigi knew laughter is often a Jew’s best defence

Following the loss of Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper, his grandson Darren Richman writes that defiance and humour in the face of death seems a particularly Jewish coping mechanism

By Darren Richman

Dorothy Bohm, Self-Portrait, 1942, age 18. © Dorothy Bohm Archive

March 21, 2023, 10:58 am

Holocaust survivor and acclaimed photographer Dorothy Bohm dies at 98

Leading figure in post-war British photography celebrated as a doyenne of the industry

By Michelle Rosenberg

Austrian actor Felix Kammerer as Paul Bäumer, the protagonist of Netflix's Oscar-nominated adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front." (Reiner Bajo/Netflix)

March 9, 2023, 12:00 pm

Jewish producer of ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ sees his family history in Oscar-nominated film

Daniel Dreifuss: "I know these people. Not because they are some distant relatives that I’ve heard of, but because I am the grandson of one of those kids who were in the film.”

By Andrew Lapin (JTA)

President of Borussia Dortmund, Daniel Lörcher (Founder of What Matters
H.E.) Ambassador Berger (German Ambassador to the UK),
Carsten Cramer (Managing Director of Borussia Dortmund),
Lord Speaker of the House of Lords,
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis,
Todd Boehly (Chelsea FC owner)
Behdad Eghbali (Chelsea FC owner)
Jonathan Goldstein (Board of Directors Chelsea FC), Lord John Mann (UK government independent advisor on combatting antisemitism) at Stamford Bridge

March 8, 2023, 11:18 am

Chief Rabbi leads service in honour of German Jewish footballer murdered at Auschwitz

Commemorative service held at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday evening, marking 80 years since Julius Hirsch was killed by the Nazis.

By Neil Silver

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