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A mural of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh in Bergen, Norway, painted by the anonymous artist Töddel, July 2024. (Courtesy of Töddel)
August 8, 2024, 11:06 am
OPINION: Defiling Anne’s memory does nothing for Gaza
As the Anne Frank statue in Amsterdam is vandalized with "Free Gaza" for the second time in a month, it's tragic that we have to work so hard to protect her memory
By Karen Pollock
"Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks) laid in Frankfurt, German(AP Photo/Michael Probst)
July 16, 2024, 3:43 pm
Channel Isles to remember Nazi victims with Stolpersteine ‘stumbling stones’
Guernsey and Jersey to install commemorative brass plaques at last known addresses of those persecuted during war
By Jenni Frazer
D-Day - Pic: Imperial War Museum
June 6, 2024, 11:07 am
OPINION: D-Day at 80: the Jewish heroes who helped secure victory
Celebrating the Jewish Servicemen and Women who gave so much 80 years ago
By Dan Fox
Germans inspecting harbour from Fort Albert on Alderney Island
May 22, 2024, 3:41 pm
Government apology for lack of prosecutions over Nazi atrocities in Alderney
UK's Post-Holocaust envoy Eric Pickles releases landmark report into events on Channel Islands
By Jenni Frazer
Vienna HaKoah football shirt
May 20, 2024, 11:19 am
Euros fans to attend Holocaust exhibit in 1936 Olympic stadium that Hitler built
The display - which opens this week - will run throughout football's European Championships in Germany this summer
By Jenni Frazer
Father Francis Wahle. Pic; AJR
May 16, 2024, 1:59 pm
Kindertransport refugee and priest Francis Wahle dies, aged 94
Baptised as a child, the Catholic minister only discovered his Jewish ancestry when he was forced to flee the Nazis in Vienna
By Michelle Rosenberg
Dr Wesley Fisher, Director of Research at the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) and the panelists
March 8, 2024, 11:33 am
New Washington looted art conference issues global report
A quarter of a century since Washington Principles on Nazi looted art, more progress urged to return artworks to families
By Jenni Frazer
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of X (formerly Twitter), sits in front of a video simulating an X feed during the Holocaust during a European Jewish Association conference in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024. (Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images via JTA)
January 26, 2024, 10:44 am
Could social media really have stopped the Holocaust?
Scholars say Elon Musk’s ‘fantasy scenario’ of Twitter/X preventing the Shoah is far-fetched.
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Eve Kugler BEM (pic FCDO)
January 23, 2024, 5:47 pm
Holocaust survivor tells of ‘anger’ over comparisons between Israel and the Nazis
Eve Kugler BME, 92, spoke to Jewish News ahead of sharing her testimony at the Foreign Office Holocaust Memorial Day reception
By Lee Harpin
Pic: Antonio Salgado
January 22, 2024, 11:41 am
Sir Michael Morpurgo: ‘Anne Frank’s Diary was her living testimony. And it lives on today’
Beloved author of War Horse speaks movingly of the profound impact the Holocaust diarist had on his life
By Sir Michael Morpurgo
HET Portrait by Tanya Harris
January 10, 2024, 12:12 pm
Holocaust survivor George Vulkan dies, aged 94
Tributes to refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who fled to Paris before settling in the UK
By Michelle Rosenberg
Historians believe that the “careless talk” casually flung about by the German PoWs provided crucial information to Allied intelligence.
January 9, 2024, 5:38 pm
Location of the ‘Secret listeners’ to launch House Of Secrets digital museum
Trent Park became the unlikely location for a group of men who eavesdroped on high-ranking German military officers who had been captured by the British forces.
By Jenni Frazer
Johnny Flynn as the young Nicholas Winton.
January 4, 2024, 1:15 pm
OPINION: Kindertransport legacy: Confronting antisemitism in today’s world
Some 85 years after Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi persecution, the British government remains an unshakable ally of the Jewish community
By Karen Pollock
Helena Bonham Carter as 'Babette' in One Life.
January 1, 2024, 3:25 pm
‘I loved playing Anthony Hopkins’ mum’ says One Life actress Helena Bonham Carter
Film icon tells Jewish News of her film character Babette, the indomitable mother of British Kindertransport hero Sir Nicholas Winton
By Michelle Rosenberg
The late Zigi Shipper with his granddaughter Emma Harrod. Pic: Darren Richman
December 18, 2023, 12:38 pm
OPINION: Another typically Zigi moment of magic, even in death
'The baby is a boy and his name is Zigi'. Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper didn't live long enough to meet his sixth great-grandson, but believed a large family was the ultimate riposte to the Nazis.
By Darren Richman
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