The outgoing Special Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues also pressed Parliament to support the new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Westminster during an exclusive interview with the JC.
By Lorin Bell-Cross
When Anne Sebba began researching a book on Auschwitz’s women’s orchestra, she soon learnt their spirit of sisterhood – rather than musical talent – sustained them, she tells Elisa Bray
By Elisa Bray
The West Side Story composer asked Holocaust survivor Samuel Pisar to write the text
Baroness Finlay said she apologised for any offence caused after her remark about Lord Finkelstein
Gatekeeper of Holocaust memories who warned against the dangers of silence and indifference
By Gloria Tessler
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
‘She was a strong lady, resilient.’
By Ellie Grant
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The barely known story of how the Budapest wartime Jewish resistance tricked their persecutors, the fascist Arrow Cross
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The nation’s president, Michael Higgins, has previously faced criticism over remarks linking Israel-Gaza conflict to Holocaust remembrance
By Nick Cohen
Why do academics who should know better argue that October 7 was no pogrom?
The Last Musician of Auschwitz is the first film Elisa Bray has watched on the topic
Courageous child refugee unfazed by Nazi intimidation
The images have been restored for the first time as part of a project to combat Holocaust denial
Archive material reveals how liberation unfolded and the journalists who helped bring the horrors of the death camps to light
By Keren David
A project by Claims Conference features the harrowing testimonies of 80 Auschwitz survivors on the anniversary of the camp’s liberation
By Eliana Jordan
Jackie Young didn’t even know he’d survived the Nazi genocide until he was in his twenties
By Imogen Garfinkel