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Danny standing in front of the Quaker Meetinghouse Manchester – he was able to come to Britain because of the sponsorship by the Quakers

January 18, 2024, 11:10 am

How ‘Kindertransport 2’ saved thousands of lives

The 85th anniversary of Kitchener Camp this weekend recalls the story of a remarkable wartime rescue project for Europe’s Jews.

By Adam Decker

Walter Bingham celebrating his hundredth birthday on January 4, 2023. (Credit: International March of the Living)

January 4, 2024, 2:43 pm

Kindertransport survivor celebrates centenary birthday in Jerusalem

Walter Bingham, the world's oldest active journalist, says he "could never have imagined that at the age of 100 I would be a witness to the horrific pogrom against Jews that took place on October 7"

By Michelle Rosenberg

Michael Rothwell the director of the Holocaust and the Jewish museums in Porto (left) and Sebastião Feyo (right) president of the Porto municipal assembly, with the school students (credit: CIP/CJP).

November 9, 2023, 3:42 pm

Hundreds of schoolchildren from Portugal commemorate Kristallnacht

Students from across the country visited the Holocaust Museum in Porto to remember the series of pogroms in Germany on 9 November 1938

By Michelle Rosenberg

Pedestrians viewing a Jewish-owned store in Berlin damaged during Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938.

November 9, 2023, 10:32 am

85 years on from Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors say they again feel unsafe as Jews

In testimonies released for the anniversary of the ‘Night of Broken Glass’, survivors from around the world call out for help in fighting rising antisemitism

By Michelle Rosenberg

November 9, 2023, 9:32 am

Virtual reality experience to mark 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht

Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch's testimony takes the viewer on a personal journey

By Jenni Frazer

Daniel Sheffer with Hamburg's Chief Rabbi Bistritzky,right

September 29, 2023, 11:36 am

Torah crown looted from shul during Kristallnacht discovered in German antique shop

The crown of the Bornplatz Synagogue now has pride of place in Hamburg Jewish community's temporary shul ahead of its £113million planned reconstruction

By Michelle Rosenberg

The Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany, once held 1,200 congregants before it was destroyed in Kristallnacht. (Wikimedia Commons)

September 29, 2023, 11:33 am

85 years after Kristallnacht, Germany to begin rebuilding grand synagogue in Hamburg

The site of the Bornplatz Synagogue was officially handed over to leaders of the city’s Jewish community on Wednesday.

By Jackie Hadjenburg (JTA)

Ivor Perl BEM, member of Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivors' Centre, interviewed by Dov Forman at Jewish Care Holocaust Survivors' Centre Fundraising Dinner. Pic: JUSTIN GRAINGE

September 27, 2023, 10:17 am

Rachel Riley hosts Holocaust Survivors’ Centre dinner for Jewish Care

The event at St. John's Wood synagogue featured guest speaker Maureen Lipman and raised £150k to support survivors and refugees

By Michelle Rosenberg

Alice Fraser has died at the age of 103 years old. Pic: AJR

June 14, 2023, 5:04 pm

Tributes to 103-year-old Holocaust survivor Alice Fraser

The great-grandmother of 11 fled Germany in 1939 and was interned on the Isle of Man as an ‘enemy alien’

By Michelle Rosenberg

Frances Segelman creates live bust sculpture of Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler, June 2023

June 9, 2023, 11:30 am

92-year old Shoah survivor Eve Kugler honoured with live sculpture

Renowned artist Frances Segelman creates bust in front of live audience as part of a series of Holocaust survivor bronzes

By Michelle Rosenberg

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover. (PA)

March 22, 2023, 12:30 pm

OPINION: Overpaid pundit Lineker has debased vital debate

His sympathy for asylum seekers is to be admired. But Gary Lineker's ignorance in comparing events in the UK to 1930s Germany was unconscionable, writes Alex Brummer

By Alex Brummer

March 22, 2023, 10:03 am

OPINION: Why does Holocaust testimony matter?

With denial and distortion on the rise, the words of the eye-witnesses have gained even more significance

By Dr Bea Lewkowicz AJR

Gary Lineker outside his home on Saturday.

March 14, 2023, 3:51 pm

OPINION: False historical equivalence empties Nazi era of its unique horror

Don’t trivialise Nazism to score political points, warns authorJeremy Havardi.

By Jeremy Havardi

Austrian actor Felix Kammerer as Paul Bäumer, the protagonist of Netflix's Oscar-nominated adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front." (Reiner Bajo/Netflix)

March 9, 2023, 12:00 pm

Jewish producer of ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ sees his family history in Oscar-nominated film

Daniel Dreifuss: "I know these people. Not because they are some distant relatives that I’ve heard of, but because I am the grandson of one of those kids who were in the film.”

By Andrew Lapin (JTA)

Kurt Marx BEM, Holocaust survivor and member of Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivors' Centre speaks at Jewish Care Young Patrons Dinner. Pic: Jewish Care.

February 27, 2023, 11:56 am

Jewish Care raises £140,000 at Young Patrons dinner

Kurt Marx BEM, a member of charity's Holocaust Survivors’ Centre who arrived in the UK on Kindertransport in 1939, spoke to 400 young supporters at annual event

By Michelle Rosenberg

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