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Gloria Tessler

Gloria Tessler

Gloria Tessler is obituaries editor at the Jewish Chronicle.

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Obituary: Ivan Solomons

“Lucky” D-Day veteran – a “shoe-in“ for highest French military accolade

By Gloria Tessler

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Obituary: Ivan Solomons
2nd December 1938: Some of the 5,000 Jewish and non-Aryan German child refugees, the 'Kindertransport', arriving in England at Harwich from Germany. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Don’t fall for myths about welcoming refugees

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Freddie Knoller: tireless campaigner for Shoah survivors who had helped the French Resistance blow up a Nazi train before he was arrested and sent to Auschwitz

Freddie Knoller: tireless campaigner for Shoah survivors who had helped the French Resistance blow up a Nazi train before he was arrested and sent to Auschwitz

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Migration crisis on the border with Belarus

Ukraine’s anguish reminds us of Israel’s story

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February 15, 2022 11:48
WINCHESTER, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 10: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is seen at the bronze sculpture of the influential Jewish financier Licoricia of Winchester and her son, Asher, after it is unveiled outside The Arc, on February 10, 2022 in Winchester, England. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Meet the descendants who help Shoah survivors to release their demons

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January 20, 2022 17:21
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The betrayal of Anne Frank is a double tragedy

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January 18, 2022 14:31
BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 09: A detail of the diary of the wax figure of Anne Frank and their hideout reconstruction is unveiled at Madame Tussauds on March 9, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Is Bambi really a foretelling of the Holocaust?

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December 29, 2021 10:04
Wild, native, Red Deer hind or female, stood in rainy Autumn weather in the colourful and beautiful Glen Strathfarrar, Highlands of Scotland. Facing camera. Space for copy. Horizontal.

Obituary: Lionel Blair

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December 17, 2021 24:00
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Passing the flame to our children's children

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October 5, 2021 09:27
YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 23: School children light candles as 600 candles are lit in a Star of David set out on the floor of the Chapter House of York Minster as part of a commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day on January 23, 2020 in York, England. The ceremony in the Minster is part of events in the UK and internationally marking Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27. This year marks the 75th anniversary since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945 which was the largest Nazi death camp. The Holocaust genocide took place during World War II in Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany where aided by its collaborators they systematically murdered some six million European Jews. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Christian Boltansky

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September 3, 2021 12:00
2G7KTX9 File photo taken in 2010 of French Artist Christian Boltanski at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. Christian Boltanski, one of France's top contemporary artists whose multimedia works probed the meaning of mortality and memory, has died aged 76. Boltanski often mixed banal daily objects with photographs, videos and sculpture, while at other times creating monumental installations. Photo by Philipp Hugues Bonan/Alamo/ABACAPRESS.COM

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August 27, 2021 12:00
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Marcel Stellman

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July 30, 2021 12:00
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