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July 24, 2024, 6:29 pm

OPINION: The Commandant’s Shadow gives no easy answers but holds a glimmer of hope

Darren Richman reviews a documentary that attempts to grapple with why we are who we are in the shadow of the Holocaust

By Darren Richman

Director Daniela Völker filming at Auschwitz with the son and grandson of the camp Commander

July 5, 2024, 10:22 pm

Coming to terms with a generational curse

The son of the Auschwitz Commandant and a survivor share cake in Daniela Völker's astonishing documentary

By Etan Smallman

From left: Nick Redshaw, Susie Kahn, James Hill, Ian Breeze and Adam Lyons

May 8, 2024, 4:45 pm

British ex-servicemen join March of the Living in Auschwitz

One of the graduates of Israel's Veterans' Games says he is 'blown away by the sheer scale of what I saw'

By Jenni Frazer

May 8, 2024, 3:55 pm

Holocaust survivor’s diaries are discovered 80 years after she wrote them

Agi Frankl's journal tells of post-war fun while stationed in Germany before returning to her bombed hometown in Hungary

By Marianne Nikolov and Nikolett Nikolov

Left to right: Hannah Janulewicz – Rudi’s granddaughter; Michael Newman, AJR CEO, His Excellency Dr Robert Ondrejcsak, Slovak Ambassador Julia Sherwood,
Dr Bea Lewkowicz – Director, AJR Refugee Voices, Jonathan Freedland,
Dr Martin Korcok, Director, Holocaust Museum, Sered
Pic: Malcolm Miller.

April 16, 2024, 3:56 pm

80 years on: the men who escaped Auschwitz to warn the world

The Association of Jewish Refugees and Slovak Republic Embassy honour the courage and bravery of Alfred Wetzler and Rudi Vrba.

By Michelle Rosenberg

Anna Próchniak, (Gita) with Holocaust survivor and centre member Ivor Perl BEM at Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivors' Centre. Pic: Adam Lawrence

April 15, 2024, 1:46 pm

Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre welcomes cast of ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’

'With all that’s happening in the world today, it's an honour to meet these actors' says Holocaust survivor and centre member Ivor Perl

By Michelle Rosenberg

April 12, 2024, 11:54 am

Rabbi returns more than £2.5 million to charities

Two Orthodox charities receive funds after National Crime Agency investigation into Rabbi Barry Marcus

By Jenni Frazer

David Schaecter and Jonathan Glazer at the Oscars.

March 12, 2024, 5:49 pm

‘Factually inaccurate and morally indefensible’: Auschwitz survivor denounces Jonathan Glazer

Film director told by 94-year-old David Schaechter he should be "ashamed" that he linked Auschwitz with Gaza in his Oscar speech.

By Jenni Frazer

February 27, 2024, 2:10 pm

OPINION: A Holocaust masterpiece I will never watch again

Writer and journalist Darren Richman reflects on the visceral power of 'The Zone of Interest', the film Steven Spielberg describes as 'the best Holocaust movie since my own'

By Darren Richman

January 24, 2024, 10:31 am

FILM REVIEW: The twilight zone between evil and ignorance

Our capacity to ignore what’s under our nose if it offends our eyes and ears – if it lies outside our zone of interest – is tested to breaking point and beyond in Jonathan Glazer’s unflinching new film about the commandant of Auschwitz, writes Richard Ferrer

By Richard Ferrer

Darren Richman and his grandfather Zigi Shipper. Pic: Darren Richman

January 18, 2024, 10:32 am

OPINION: A year on, we remember my beloved grandfather Zigi

'The boy from Łódź never forgot where he came from or what he’d been through'. Darren Richman marks the first year without Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper

By Darren Richman

December 29, 2023, 8:37 am

Survivor Lily Ebert ‘so touched’ by personal letter from King on 100th birthday

Charles has praised Lily's 'extraordinary strength of spirit, resilience and courage' in his letter to her

By JN Reporter

Conductor and composer Leo Geyer in concert

November 30, 2023, 11:09 am

Music from Auschwitz orchestras pieced together and heard for the first time

A chance conversation at the Nazi death camp in 2015 and a painstaking 'jigsaw' ever since led to this week's first airing in 80 years

By Jenni Frazer

November 27, 2023, 11:56 am

Photos of Hamas hostages placed on Auschwitz train tracks

JFS students on JRoots educational trip to Poland place pictures of remaining hostages outside concentration camp

By Michelle Rosenberg

Beachwood High School is located in one of the country's most Jewish suburbs. (Courtesy of the Cleveland Jewish News)

September 27, 2023, 10:13 am

Ohio high school football coach resigns after players use ‘Nazi’ in play calls

Brooklyn High School from Ohio was playing the team from Beachwood, a suburb with the second-highest rate of Jewish residents in the country.

By Andrew Lapin (JTA)

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