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Why I fear that next week’s inquiry into Alderney deaths will not be objective

Members of the panel have already expressed trenchant views

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The entrance to S.S Lager Sylt Concentration Camp on Alderney
Left: Alan Overton with the boys of Little Thorn hostel in Rugby, with house mother Mrs Sperber, Right: Alan Overton
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Left to right: Rudolf Vrba's granddaughter Hannah, AJR CEO Michael Newman OBE, Ambassador of Slovakia to the UK Dr Róbert Ondrejcsák, translator and Slovak literature promoter Julia Sherwood, Director of AJR Refugee Voices Dr Bea Lewkowicz, author and journalist Jonathan Freedland, and the director of the Sered' Holocaust Museum Dr Martin Korčok, April 15, 2024 (Credit: AJR)
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Association of Jewish Refugees honours two Auschwitz escapees who warned the world of what they witnessed

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Alex Kurzem, centre, with the Latvian battalion that is said to have took him in (Credit: SBS / Australian Uncovered)
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New revelations about ‘Hitler’s Jewish soldier’

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German pair fear they must leave home Nazis forcibly took from Jewish owners
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German pair fear they must leave home Nazis forcibly took from Jewish owners

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Arnold Schwarzenegger honoured with courage award for work in combating antisemitism

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Jewish lawyer who spied for Britain after fleeing the Nazis honoured

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