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Virtual reality brings Holocaust history to future generations

For those who survived the Holocaust, the memories can never be erased, but their generation is dying out. Educators and historians are looking for new ways to keep their experience alive and connect to younger people.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is now an opera – the case for adaptating the book that the Auschwitz Museum said 'should be avoided'

Irish novelist John Boyne published his novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in 2006. The protagonist, eight-year-old German boy Bruno, has no idea that his father is the kommandant of a concentration camp during the second world war. Bruno and his family are sent to live with their father…

The Conversation

Calderstones mum never revealed her past fighting Nazis

Sabine Specter was part of the resistance during the war, before she moved to Liverpool

Liverpool Echo

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Saved from the Nazis when her mother pushed her through a hedge, Anne spent the war as a 'hidden child'

Anne Super survived the war years against the odds. On Holocaust Memorial Day she talks about the extraordinary moment her mother told her to ‘run’

Manchester Evening News

New audio series tells the story of forgotten piece of Holocaust history in the North East

'The Girls', the five part series from BBC Radio Newcastle has pieced together the story of a hostel in Tynemouth that housed over 20 girls who were fleeing Nazi persecution

Chronicle Live

Light a virtual candle for the victims of genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day

Friday marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

Manchester Evening News

Susan Pollack OBE: Holocaust Survivor tells her story for memorial day

A Nazi concentration camp survivor has urged people to end a culture of blame and instead learn from the past to put an end to atrocities we continue to see around the world. Marking Holocaust Memorial Day, Susan Pollack told The Standard: “Hate has a way of spreading. It isn’t…

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Holocaust Memorial Day: Five survivors and the precious objects they smuggled to safety

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, five survivors recall their stories, and the item they still have that means so much to them as part of the Daily Mirror's #PeopleMove project

Daily Mirror

Holocaust remembrance: we must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking as events pass out of living memory

In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or “the age”, was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down from the oldest to the youngest. Recognising this profound idea, some have worried that the memory of the Holocaust will fade as the generation of those who survived it…

The Conversation

78 years on, Jewish Holocaust rescuers want their story told

Just before Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Jewish youth leaders in the eastern European country jumped into action: They formed an underground network that would save tens of thousands of fellow Jews from the gas chambers

The Independent UK

Holocaust Memorial Day: Auschwitz survivor urges people to treat each other equally

As world remembers atrocities, survivor Susan Pollack urges people to learn from the past and end culture of blame

Evening Standard

The bride and groom moved to Liverpool. Everyone else was murdered.

"It’s like a big black hole... even the young children died."

Liverpool Echo

Holocaust survivors call for salute ban

Holocaust survivors are seeking a meeting with Victorian officials as they push for a ban on the Nazi salute after a spate of recent incidents.

AAP

Social media ‘challenges preservation’ of Holocaust truth, says trust chief

Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, spoke about battling ‘ignorant’ Holocaust disinformation on social media.

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Holocaust survivor urges people not to be silent over antisemitism

John Dobai, 89, lived through the Second World War as a child in Hungary, but five of his family members were killed.

The Independent UK

Antisemitism rising because of a lack of Holocaust education, survivor says

Vera Schaufeld fled Nazi-occupied Europe as a child and stressed the importance of continuing to speak out.

The Independent UK

UN chief: Exhibit of Nazi victims is call to fight cruelty

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Nazis tried to rob millions of Jews of their names before killing them during World War II

Bangkok Post

Warsaw Uprising a lesson for all

January 27 was designated by the UN as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to commemorate the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust. During World War II, the Nazi regime systematically and brutally annihilated, in cold blood, six million Jews, including one million children, together with another…

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Disabled people were Holocaust victims, too: they were excluded from German society and murdered by Nazi programs

When Dominic Perrottet admitted to wearing a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday party, he apologised to Jews and veterans – but not to the other groups who were persecuted by the Nazis, including disabled people.

The Independent UK

Sajid Javid describes ‘anger’ at Andrew Bridgen’s Holocaust tweet

Mr Bridgen lost the Conservative whip earlier this month for tweeting an article questioning the safety of the Covid vaccines.

Daily Record

Lanarkshire MP shares importance of marking Holocaust memorial day

The annual commemoration day takes place on January 27

Daily Mirror

Andrew Bridgen threatens to sue Matt Hancock over Covid vaccine comments row

North West Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen was stripped of the Tory whip after he appeared to compare the effects of coronavirus jabs to the Holocaust

Reuters

Race against the clock for Germany's top Nazi hunter

Germany's top Nazi hunter, Thomas Will, is hopeful of securing further convictions over the Holocaust even as the remaining suspects, many now in their late 90s, die.

The Guardian - US

US woman accused of defrauding Holocaust survivor, 87, of $2.8m savings

Peaches Stergo, 36, allegedly met victim on dating site and deceived him into paying 62 checks over four years

The Conversation

Teaching the Holocaust through literature: four books to help young people gain deeper understanding

A survey commissioned in 2019 revealed the shocking result that over half of Britons did not know that at least six millions Jews had been murdered during the Holocaust.

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