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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…

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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

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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.

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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.

The Independent UK

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

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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

The Independent UK

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.

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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.

The Independent UK

Lanarkshire MP shares importance of marking Holocaust memorial day

The annual commemoration day takes place on January 27

Daily Record

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

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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.

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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

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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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Urgent need to build UK Holocaust memorial now before survivors die, says Pickles

Co-chair of memorial foundation ‘desperate’ to start work on scheme next to parliament, first proposed in 2014

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The Independent UK

Andrew Bridgen to sue Matt Hancock for defamation after Covid vaccine row

The North West Leicestershire MP was stripped of the Tory whip after appearing to compare Covid-19 vaccines with the Holocaust.

The Conversation

The Holocaust: remembering the powerful acts of 'ordinary people'

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” the British author LP Hartley once wrote, hinting at the mystique of history – the idea that people in the past were somehow different to us in the 21st century.

Reuters

Holocaust survivor finds refuge from Ukraine war in Poland

Iya Rudzitskaya, a 92-year-old Ukrainian Jew, has fled Kyiv twice. First, in 1941, when she was just 10 years old and German bombs started falling on the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The second time came last year, when Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.

The Independent UK

Israel’s Herzog urges EU to fight resurgent antisemitism

Israeli President Isaac Herzog says antisemitism is on the rise in the Western world and he is urging the European Union to ensure that Jews can live safely on the continent where the Holocaust took place

Reuters

Holocaust survivors use AI imagery to keep stories alive

Ehudith Bracha Serchook narrowly escaped death when her family fled Nazi-allied forces storming the Crimean city of Odesa in 1941, saved only by a lost sandal which made her miss her place on a passenger ship shortly before it was bombed.

Evening Standard

Is Rishi Sunak’s Holocaust memorial promise another false dawn?

The project has been planned and blocked for years

France 24

'The State of Dark': A Holocaust survivor's moving commemoration of lost family

As a child of Holocaust survivors, singer and writer Judith Mok grew up without grandparents, aunts, or other extended family. But that painful past was always present through her parents' silences and whispers, and when her elder half-sister revealed that she witnessed their grandparents' arrest, Mok decided to finally bring…

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