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Mervyn Kersh, 100-year old D-Day veteran, at Normandy, June 2025.
June 12, 2025, 1:46 pm
Jewish D-Day veteran returns to Normandy for 81st commemoration
100-year old Mervyn Kersh paid tribute to the thousands of young men who died fighting Nazi troops in France on June 6, 1944
By Michelle Rosenberg
Stanley Fisher and Mervyn Kersh. Pic: AJEX, June 2024
April 10, 2025, 11:15 am
EXCLUSIVE: Prime minister’s salute to Jewish liberators of Bergen-Belsen
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of liberation by British forces, Keir Starmer pays tribute to heroes Stanley Fisher and Mervyn Kersh in letter organised by Jewish News
By Michelle Rosenberg
German and American soldiers at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany honor Nathan Baskind's remains after their excavation. (U.S. Army)
June 7, 2024, 1:57 pm
In Normandy, a Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave will receive a proper burial
Shot behind enemy lines, US Army first lieutenant Nate Baskind went unidentified as an American Jew for decades. He will be reburied in Normandy on June 23, the 80th anniversary of his death
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
D-Day Veteran David Teacher at Broughton House in Salford. David has died less than a fortnight before the 80th anniversary of the landings.
June 7, 2024, 1:44 pm
Jewish community lights beacon to mark D-Day 80th
Packed crowd at JFS hear veterans' memories as part of national commemoration of June 6 1944
By Jenni Frazer
A Colossus Mark 2 codebreaking computer, 1943. (The National Archives (United Kingdom)/Wikipedia)
June 5, 2019, 10:56 am
D-Day: The Jewish contribution to the largest seaborne invasion in history
While many know D-Day was an intelligence triumph, experts say few appreciate the Jewish community's input to the key turning point in the Second World War
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Étretat’s famous cliff formations
July 27, 2018, 12:24 pm
Right on the Monet!
Lucy Daltroff visits the stunning coastal resort of Étretat in Normandy, the inspiration for French Impressionists and home to one of the most unusual  gardens in the world
By Lucy Daltroff
Emergency services transport a person into a waiting ambulance, after two attackers seized hostages in a church near the Normandy city of Rouen on Tuesday (Photo credit: BFM via AP)
July 26, 2016, 1:54 pm
Normandy church murder was ‘attack against all religions’
Jewish leaders from the UK and around the world condemned the ‘callous’ murder of an 85-year-old priest
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