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Israel takes over IHRA presidency from the UK

Yad Vashem chair Dani Dayan has been appointed to the role of chair in a year that coincides with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

March 3, 2025 12:25

Yad Vashem chair Dani Dayan will lead the Israeli delegation in its presidency of the IHRA (Image: Flash90)

Rose Girone, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

‘She was a strong lady, resilient.’

By Ellie Grant

3 min read

February 25, 2025 15:22

Rose Girone, the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, has died at 113 (Picture: Screenshot)

The Jews who dressed as Nazis to hunt them down

The barely known story of how the Budapest wartime Jewish resistance tricked their persecutors, the fascist Arrow Cross

By Adam Lebor

8 min read

February 19, 2025 10:32

Stein (left, courtesy of family) and Gur (Image of Gur: US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Irish Taoiseach hits out at ‘false accusations’ of antisemitism following HMD row

The nation’s president, Michael Higgins, has previously faced criticism over remarks linking Israel-Gaza conflict to Holocaust remembrance

By Ellie Grant

1 min read

February 12, 2025 17:35

Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin has hit out at what he termed 'false accusations' of rising antisemitism in Ireland (Image: Getty)

By Nick Cohen

Introducing the Holocaust historians who do not understand antisemitism

Why do academics who should know better argue that October 7 was no pogrom?

3 min read

February 5, 2025 11:43

By Elisa Bray

Some of us are too scared to watch films on the Holocaust

The Last Musician of Auschwitz is the first film Elisa Bray has watched on the topic

3 min read

February 4, 2025 11:10

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Holocaust refugee and educator Renee Bornstein, BEM

Courageous child refugee unfazed by Nazi intimidation

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

January 31, 2025 11:55

Holocaust refugee and educator Renee Bornstein, BEM

So that we never forget: Rare colourised photos of death camp liberation revealed

The images have been restored for the first time as part of a project to combat Holocaust denial

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

January 27, 2025 09:00

A survivor is escorted out of the gates of Penig concentration camp (Image: US National Archives/Spaceship Earth)

How the JC reported Auschwitz’s horror

Archive material reveals how liberation unfolded and the journalists who helped bring the horrors of the death camps to light

By Keren David

1 min read

January 27, 2025 09:00

Archive material has revealed how the JC covered the liberation of Auschwitz

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Germany’s last convict for Holocaust crimes dies aged 99

‘My tidal wave of monstrous fury’: Simon Schama on tonight’s Holocaust documentary

Lord Pickles: We aren’t prepared for the impact on Holocaust education of there being no survivors

The musicians who literally played for their lives in Auschwitz

When my father wrote the text for Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish, he saw it all coming

Jewish peer accused of ‘parading’ his family’s suffering during debate over Holocaust memorial

Polish-born journalist and historian Marian Turski dies aged 98

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Israel takes over IHRA presidency from the UK

Rose Girone, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

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Irish Taoiseach hits out at ‘false accusations’ of antisemitism following HMD row

Introducing the Holocaust historians who do not understand antisemitism

Some of us are too scared to watch films on the Holocaust

Holocaust refugee and educator Renee Bornstein, BEM

So that we never forget: Rare colourised photos of death camp liberation revealed

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