Holocaust

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

Singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion’s new book tells the story of how her grandfather – and his piano – survived the Holocaust

By Elisa Bray

5 min read

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June 6, 2024 15:05

Music to my ears: singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion and her grandfather, Stephen de Bastion, before the war

Macklemore invokes Holocaust during Germany concert

The US rapper has previously been criticised for wearing an antisemitic costume and is a strong supporter of Palestinians

By Rosa Doherty

1 min read

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June 4, 2024 11:21

US rapper invokes the Holocaust on stage

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

Around 1,000 people, including deported French Jews, were killed on the British crown dependency

By Felix Pope

2 min read

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May 22, 2024 11:59

The Alderney camp featured 'brutality, sadism and murder', Lord Pickles said (Photo: Getty Images)

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

The newly revealed death toll is more than double the official figure believed for decades

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

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May 19, 2024 11:39

The entrance to S.S Lager Sylt Concentration Camp on Alderney

By Tanya Gold

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

3 min read

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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

1 min read

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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

4 min read

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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

2 min read

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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

6 min read

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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

Family behind Choco Leibniz apologise for Nazi-era forced labour after new report

Extremists planning riots denied the Holocaust and praised Hitler

Teacher says picking on pupils to answer snap questions is like the ‘final solution’

Trump joked about Nazi ‘ovens’, claims former Jewish employee

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

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Family behind Choco Leibniz apologise for Nazi-era forced labour after new report

Extremists planning riots denied the Holocaust and praised Hitler

Teacher says picking on pupils to answer snap questions is like the ‘final solution’

Trump joked about Nazi ‘ovens’, claims former Jewish employee

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

Holocaust survivors beamed into classrooms using virtual reality headsets

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

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

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is Holocaust entertainment for non-Jews

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

Holocaust survivor tends graves of soldiers killed on Oct. 7

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

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