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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 · Jan 27, 2023

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 · Jan 26, 2023

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…

Bangkok Post · Jan 26, 2023

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.

Reuters · Jan 26, 2023

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 Guardian - US · Jan 26, 2023

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.

The Conversation · Jan 26, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2023

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 Independent UK · Jan 26, 2023

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.

The Conversation · Jan 26, 2023

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.

Reuters · Jan 26, 2023