In 1946, over 1,300 European Jews boarded a secret ship to break through the blockade of the Palestine coast. No one had written a book about it, so I did.
The building in the town of Selvino was opened as a museum last week
The orphans posed for the picture before they left for a new life in the UK in August 1945
Campaigners say the Kindertransport story was unknown in Austria until fairly recently
Landsberg am Lech appears set to examine its wartime story — but some locals are unimpressed by the plans
Death pits in Ukraine containing tens of thousands of Jews are routinely targeted by thieves seeking precious metals
The award is in recognition of Jewish soldiers who fought to liberate Italy in 1944
Rosie Whitehouse visits Chelmno, a site dwarfed by visitor numbers to Auschwitz but where the Nazis experimented with mass murder
The Madonnini family's story has only just come to light
La Spezia awards Exodus prize to Liliana Segre
Haifa resident victim of “corruption” and pressure on judges
The trip took him from his home town of Varano Borghi, on the Italian side of the border with Switzerland, to the port of Brindisi in the heel of the Italian boot
Grugliasco, in northern Italy, was once home to 2,000 Holocaust survivors
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