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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and Sam Churchill
July 8, 2026, 3:27 pm
HMDT launches new music competition with chance to perform at national ceremony
Offering £500 prize, initiative invites musicians aged 18 - 25 to create an original composition inspired by the Holocaust Memorial Day 2027 theme, 'No Place for Prejudice'
By Michelle Rosenberg
Hundreds from across the country joined the Holocaust Educational Trust Ambassador Conference. July 2026
July 8, 2026, 12:37 pm
Hundreds of young people join Holocaust Educational Trust’s ambassador conference
'We are the way to keep the memory alive and stop it from happening again'
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: Alfred Landecker Foundation
June 25, 2026, 4:53 pm
Holocaust education sector needs substantial digital investment, new report says
Survey of 127 global heritage and education organisations finds staff shortages and insufficient digital literacy
By Michelle Rosenberg
Jenny (second right) with her newly discovered brothers Saul, Mickey and Howie, whom she found after a 33-year search for her biological father, Holocaust survivor and Windermere Boy Moshe Nurtman.
June 18, 2026, 2:30 pm
The letter that revealed three brothers and a Holocaust survivor father
A DNA test and surname mistake ended a 33-year search and uncovered an unexpected Jewish family
By Jenny Bennett
Holocaust Centre North
June 11, 2026, 10:19 am
Holocaust Centre North to offer free education for primary and secondary students
Association of Jewish Refugees among donors supporting one-year Shoah education initiative in west Yorkshire
By Michelle Rosenberg
Novogrudok - then and now. Pic: The Together Plan
May 27, 2026, 6:27 pm
Why was a World War II ghetto site in Belarus abruptly sold to a private buyer?
SPECIAL REPORT: Last year Novogrudok's council signed an agreement, with Jewish community participation, to develop a major memorial. What happened next has mystified - and concerned - many
By Michelle Rosenberg
Harry Spiro. Pic: HET
May 18, 2026, 4:06 pm
‘Hitler, you didn’t win, I won’: Windermere Boy Harry Spiro dies aged 96
Tributes pour in for extraordinary Holocaust survivor with a life of 'unimaginable loss and remarkable resilience'
By Michelle Rosenberg
Artist Ian Wolter with a figure for the Kindertransport Memorial 'Safe Haven' in Harwich
April 22, 2026, 10:22 am
Lancashire school commissions statue to honour Kindertransport students
Boarding school Rossall to commemorate stories of Gerd Haag, Robert Augenfeld and Karl Schneider
By Michelle Rosenberg
A container installed near the site of the Jedwabne pogrom proclaims in Polish, "The earth doesn't lie." The container, installed in April 2026, promotes the narrative that Nazis, not Poles, killed the Jews of Jedwabne in 1941. (Screenshot)
April 20, 2026, 12:56 pm
Denying that Poles killed their Jewish neighbours, Polish activist declares victory over ‘the Jedwabne lie’
Relatives of a survivor of the 1941 pogrom say Wojciech Sumlinski has erected a “denial museum” on the graves of their family
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Michelle Rosenberg, Auschwitz, Monday 13th April 2026.
April 14, 2026, 9:02 am
The names I carry: finding my family at Auschwitz
A visit to Poland for March of the Living becomes a confrontation with my family’s erased past
By Michelle Rosenberg
Courtesy Nissen Richards Studio.
April 13, 2026, 11:01 am
Wiener Holocaust Library granted permission for building transformation
Go ahead from Camden Council for new learning area, gallery and roof garden for Grade II listed building
By Michelle Rosenberg
HMD Ceremony 2025 - HRH Princess of Wales credit HMDT Sam Churchill
April 8, 2026, 11:34 am
UK National Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony wins Royal Television Society Award
Held at London's Guildhall, the poignant January 2025 televised tribute has also been nominated for a BAFTA award in May
By Michelle Rosenberg
Sir Sajid Javid Chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
April 2, 2026, 11:43 am
Holocaust education ‘must fight rising hate among young’
Sir Sajid Javid, chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, says there are 'reasons to be hopeful', after more than 1,000 secondary schools across the UK marked HMD this year
By Michelle Rosenberg
Dr Christine Schmidt (right) and Dr Barbara Warnock (left) at The Sir András Schiff - Fund Raising Concert of The Wiener Holocaust Library in London Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John’s Wood on 5 3 2026. Photos taken by Adam Soller Photography©
March 10, 2026, 4:02 pm
Women co-directors make history by taking helm at Shoah archive
Dr Christine Schmidt and Dr Barbara Warnock appointed to lead Wiener Holocaust Library 
By Michelle Rosenberg
Hebrew prayers scrawled on the back of Romanian wine labels are displayed as part of the “Living Memory” exhibit at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. (Larry Luxner)
March 5, 2026, 12:01 pm
At this Jerusalem museum, everyday objects tell the story of the Shoah in a unique way
Living Memory is a new exhibit at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre
By Larry Luxner (JTA)
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