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The Tattooist of Auschwitz is Holocaust entertainment for non-Jews

It allows the reader to pretend an interest in, and care for, Jewish suffering that rarely extends to Jews who are alive

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May 16, 2024 09:01

Anna Próchniak as Gita Furman in Auschwitz.

Paris Holocaust memorial defaced with red hands in ‘disgraceful act of hate’

French capital city tagged with red hand graffiti on the anniversary of the Nazi’s first round-up of Parisian Jews

By Jane Prinsley

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May 14, 2024 15:21

Paris Holocaust memorial defaced with red hands in ‘disgraceful act of hate’

Holocaust survivor tends graves of soldiers killed on Oct. 7

Yaakov Lubinewski’s entire family was murdered by the Nazis eight decades ago and now he spends his time helping others through their own loss

By Etgar Lefkovits

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March 27, 2024 12:04

Yaakov Lubinewski, 99, tends the graves of two Israeli soldiers from his town killed during Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, March 26, 2024. (Credit: Rina Castelnuovo)

Howard Jacobson accuses London Review of Books of ‘Jew-baiting’

Literary magazine produced front page suggesting Israel has leveraged the Holocaust to ‘slaughter 13,000 children’

By Jane Prinsley

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March 20, 2024 10:23

The second March edition of the London Review of Books has been widely condemned by Jewish writers for its title, "The Shoah after Gaza"

You’ve met the Windermere Children, here are the ‘Southampton Boys’

The Lake District village was not the only place in the UK that offered refuge to young Shoah survivors. Faith Eckersall recounts the heartwarming story of Wintershill Hall

By Faith Eckersall

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March 19, 2024 13:20

Remembering the past: some of the Boys’ children and their offspring visiting Wintershill House last May

Fury over ‘sickening’ LRB article saying Israel leverages Shoah to ‘slaughter children’

Front-page piece draws derision and outrage from Jewish figures

By Jane Prinsley

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March 18, 2024 16:51

Fury over ‘sickening’ LRB article saying Israel leverages Shoah to ‘slaughter children’

Kindertransport refugee who escaped the Nazis dies aged 100

Henry Wuga became a renowned chef in the UK

By Rosa Doherty

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March 18, 2024 09:59

Kindertransport refugee who escaped the Nazis dies aged 100

Schools ‘shamefully’ boycotting Holocaust education over Gaza

Voices of the Holocaust, which takes plays preserving the memories and stories of Shoah survivors into schools, is getting ‘radio silence’

By Elisa Bray

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March 7, 2024 16:28

A scene from 'Kindness: A Legacy of the Holocaust'

‘Aggressive mob’ of pro-Palestine demonstrators block Montreal Jews from event at Holocaust Museum

Demonstrators swarmed the Federation CJA and Holocaust Museum building to protest event featuring Israeli speakers

By Eliana Jordan

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March 5, 2024 12:13

‘Aggressive mob’ of pro-Palestine demonstrators block Montreal Jews from event at Holocaust Museum

Thugs scrawl ‘Jews are criminals’ on Holocaust memorial stones in Germany

Holocaust survivors beamed into classrooms using virtual reality headsets

102-year-old Holocaust survivor is the face of Vogue Germany

‘The Shoah silenced him, but now his piano sings again’

Macklemore invokes Holocaust during Germany concert

Channel Islands death camp was no ‘mini-Auschwitz’, review finds

Over 1,000 people died in Alderney concentration camps, inquiry will reveal this week

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Thugs scrawl ‘Jews are criminals’ on Holocaust memorial stones in Germany

Holocaust survivors beamed into classrooms using virtual reality headsets

102-year-old Holocaust survivor is the face of Vogue Germany

‘The Shoah silenced him, but now his piano sings again’

Macklemore invokes Holocaust during Germany concert

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Over 1,000 people died in Alderney concentration camps, inquiry will reveal this week

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