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Yom HaShoah
Nechama Grossman. Picture: X
April 25, 2025, 4:36 pm
Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 110 on remembrance day
Nechama Grossman survived Nazi terror, built a family in Israel, and lived to see her great-great-grandchildren thrive
By Annabel Sinclair
Yom HaShoah 2026 Pic: Meron Persey Photography
April 24, 2025, 12:11 am
‘We won’t stand for it’: 4000 witness Home Secretary’s Jew-hate vow at Yom HaShoah event
'Once in a generation' ceremony honours survivors and liberators at the proposed site of new Holocaust memorial and learning centre by Parliament
By JN Reporter
A Yom HaShoah event in Westminster
April 23, 2025, 12:32 pm
OPINION: Sometimes remembering Yom HaShoah feels like an act of resistance
As antisemitism rises, it takes renewed strength to stand together, writes Karen Pollock
By Karen Pollock
Femke Halsema. Photo Credit: Wikipedia
April 14, 2025, 2:07 pm
Amsterdam mayor to apologise for city’s role in Holocaust and mistreatment of survivors
City to issue a formal apology and pledge £21m to support Jewish life
By Annabel Sinclair
The Auschwitz Jewish Centre in Oswiecim, Poland. Photo Credit: The Auschwitz Jewish Centre.
April 7, 2025, 10:40 am
80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in Oświęcim
The Auschwitz Jewish Centre is now selling packaged kosher food, in a move both practical and symbolic
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
March 18, 2025, 12:29 pm
OPINION: The last witnesses: a once-in-a-generation call to remember
As the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust approaches, British Jews must unite in unprecedented numbers to honour our survivors – and take up the torch of memory
By Neil Martin
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis addressing a Yom HaShoah UK event
March 5, 2025, 1:22 pm
Jewish community gears up for 80th anniversary of Bergen-Belsen liberation
Thousands expected outside Parliament for National Yom HaShoah UK commemoration in April
By Michelle Rosenberg
A rally in support of Israel in January 2024
May 17, 2024, 11:49 am
OPINION: It may be hard to be a Jew at the moment. But it’s not as lonely as we might think
'Now is the time to be gracious and to accept the help of others. How sad that I even need to spell this out', writes National Holocaust Museum director Marc Cave
By Marc Cave
May 10, 2024, 2:38 pm
German sports figures mark Yom Hashoah in Israel
World Jewish Congress organisers unique delegation to mark Holocaust remembrance and meet hostages' families
By Jenni Frazer
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis speaks during the Yom Hashoah National Holocaust Remembrance Commemoration in Westminster, central London. Picture date: Sunday May 5, 2024.
May 5, 2024, 11:47 pm
‘We come together this evening as proud Jews to remember the Shoah’
This year's Yom HaShoah commemoration in London, held as antisemitism rises across the globe after 7 October, took place in Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster
By Lee Harpin
A man carries a tote bag showing a Swastika/Star of David design, struck through in red. © Amstel Adams/ Alamy Live News
May 2, 2024, 11:44 am
OPINION: Rejecting hate speech isn’t stifling Israel criticism; it’s fighting antisemitism
A swastika on the streets of London in 2024 is NOT a symbol of political protest. It is a symbol of genocide, racism and antisemitism, writes Karen Pollock
By Karen Pollock
Eitan Neishlos with Michal and Isaac Herzog (photo credit: Neishlos Foundation)
April 20, 2023, 10:50 am
Philanthropist honours Holocaust survivors at home of Israeli president
Eitan Neishlos, founder and chairman of the Neishlos Foundation and grandson of a Holocaust survivor, spoke on Monday at the residence of Isaac and Michael Herzog.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Children's Choir with dignitaries. Pic: Meron Persey Photography.
April 18, 2023, 9:39 am
Live streamed Yom HaShoah ceremony marks 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Annual remembrance day was held at Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivors Centre on Monday evening.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Thousands lit candles for Yom HaShoah
April 13, 2023, 5:04 pm
Next week’s main UK Yom HaShoah event to mark 80th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Annual Jewish remembrance day for victims of the Holocaust to be live streamed on Smart TV
By Michelle Rosenberg
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
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