Zigi Shipper

November 12, 2025, 2:46 pm

The end of an epoch: Zigi Shipper's grandson reflects on a profound friendship between two Holocaust survivors

September 29, 2025, 11:01 am

The solemn day is ultimately about learning from the mistakes of the past in order to live better in the present, writes Darren Richman

By Darren Richman

March 31, 2025, 10:49 am

OPINION: Laughter may not be the best medicine, but it’s right behind chicken soup

How Holocaust survivors used humour to humanise the most inhumane of times

By Darren Richman

January 9, 2025, 8:51 pm

A respectful Holocaust film that contains jokes: Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘A Real Pain’

'The first generation is dying out yet art is still being created in relation to the Holocaust' says reviewer Darren Richman

By Darren Richman

Kristen Bell and Hot rabbi Adam Brody star in Nobody Wants This

December 23, 2024, 10:03 am

OPINION: How Christmas trees and circumcision made the perfect compromise

Darren Richman reflects on interfaith marriage and family expectations

By Darren Richman

July 24, 2024, 6:29 pm

OPINION: The Commandant’s Shadow gives no easy answers but holds a glimmer of hope

Darren Richman reviews a documentary that attempts to grapple with why we are who we are in the shadow of the Holocaust

By Darren Richman

England lost to Italy in the final of Euro 2020

May 29, 2024, 12:24 pm

OPINION: Football is an irresistible addiction I will never kick

This summer, the England football team has its best chance of silverware in decades (heard that one before?!) Darren Richman waxes lyrical on Euro 2024 and what the sport means to British Jews.

By Darren Richman

Darren Richman and his grandfather Zigi Shipper. Pic: Darren Richman

January 18, 2024, 10:32 am

OPINION: A year on, we remember my beloved grandfather Zigi

'The boy from Łódź never forgot where he came from or what he’d been through'. Darren Richman marks the first year without Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper

By Darren Richman

The late Zigi Shipper with his granddaughter Emma Harrod. Pic: Darren Richman

December 18, 2023, 12:38 pm

OPINION: Another typically Zigi moment of magic, even in death

'The baby is a boy and his name is Zigi'. Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper didn't live long enough to meet his sixth great-grandson, but believed a large family was the ultimate riposte to the Nazis.

By Darren Richman

Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper stands besides his portrait in an exhibition at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, of 'Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust'. Picture date: Monday January 24, 2022.

September 13, 2023, 12:10 pm

OPINION: A Rosh Hashanah mission for the future of Holocaust education

By the time new students complete secondary school, the Holocaust will likely have moved out of living memory. We must make sure these stories continue to be told, again and again, writes Karen Pollock

By Karen Pollock

Lodz Ghetto memorial photograph, showing Zigi Shipper, foreground, touching his hand to his face. Pic: Darren Richman

September 12, 2023, 3:55 pm

OPINION: My grandfather Zigi Shipper – a lifetime defying the odds and surviving

There he was, "staring down the lens and into the future," writes Darren Richman, of the incredible moment he recognised the image of his beloved grandfather at a Lodz Ghetto monument

By Darren Richman

The author receiving a prize from former England captain Mike Gatting after winning a fielding competition at Lord's. Pic: Darren Richman

August 4, 2023, 11:06 am

OPINION: In the field of faith, Judaism and sport are one

For Darren Richman, cricket and his adored late grandfather Zigi Shipper, are intrinsically linked. They both remind him of the things we hand down and a sense of community.

By Darren Richman

July 5, 2023, 11:08 am

Opinion: Truth can be lost in darkness and this institution does an admirable job of shining a light on one of the darkest periods in human history

Darren Richman, grandson of late Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper at The Wiener Holocaust Library on it's 90th anniversary

By Darren Richman

45 AID 2023 Dinner survivors (pictured left to right) Jackie Young, Zdenka Husserl, Rachel Levy, Victor Greenberg, Mala Tribich and Harry Olmer, lit 6 memorial candles to represent the 6 million Jewish lives tragically lost during the Holocaust.
Photo John Rifkin

May 16, 2023, 4:56 pm

Holocaust survivors group holds its 78th reunion dinner

Zdenka Husserl, Rachel Levy, Jackie Young, Victor Greenberg, Mala Tribich and Harry Olmer lit six memorial candles at event for 45 Aid Society

By Jenni Frazer

Darren Richman and Barry Humphries, 2023

April 28, 2023, 12:13 pm

OPINION: What a Dame! Tribute to an honorary Jewish genius

Darren Richman on the loss of the "unfailingly charming and self-effacing" Barry Humphries

By Darren Richman

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