…with facing its history of the Holocaust,I am amazed that that quality of response and the deep emotionalism comes from France.” said Ralph Samuel, who was born in Dresden and…
Our father, Peter Spiro, who has died aged 79, was a child Holocaust survivor. Born in Vienna, he came to Britain alone as an eight-year-old, on the kindertransport trains from…
65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, should the Holocaust’s place in Jewish literature change? A quick look at the programme for Jewish Book Week shows a diverse range of…
The first ever recognition of Britons who saved the lives of Jews and other persecuted groups during the Holocaust will be bestowed by the Prime Minister. Mr Brown said: “It…
Nicholas Winton, the man called the British Schindler Two surviving recipients, Sir Nicholas Winton and Denis Avey, will be given their medals in person while another 25 will be recognised…
The Prime Minister has recognised 27 British men and women as “Heroes of the Holocaust”. Here are their stories of extraordinary bravery in the face of Nazi persecution. Sir Nicholas…
…controls for the sake of Jews and other persecuted groups. As Secretary of the Friends Committee on Refugees and Aliens, Bracey’s work was central to the establishment of the Kindertransport….
Dan Springer, chairman of the fine and performing arts department at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. CAPE COD —In 1995, Springer was hired to teach at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School where…
REMEMBERING: Herbert Levy remembers his time as a 10-year-old Jewish boy in the internee camp at Bradda Glen, Port Erin When Herbert Levy was 10 years old, he spent a…
One of the first objects you see in the newly expanded Jewish Museum London,is also one of the museum’s oldest: the remains of a 13th-century Jewish ritual bath uncovered during…
The main gallery charts the history of the Jewish community in Britain from 1066, most effectively the 19th and 20th centuries. Individual exhibits include a tiny doll brought over by…
David Zeehandelaar packed a lot of accomplishment in his short life. He was a partner in the law firm of Blank Rome LLP, served on the executive committee of the…
Gerard Friedenfeld writes of his experiences as a Kind in England and with Lola Hahn-Warburg: I arrived at London’s Liverpool Street station from Prague in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on June 2,…
Atlanta architect and author of two memoirs Benjamin Hirsch’s mother secured passage on a Kindertransport to Paris for five of her children, including 6-year-old Ben. The train left Frankfurt on…
Felix Weil, 82, shared his first-hand experience of traveling on the first Kindertransport that departed Germany for England in 1938. He related a tale of being chosen from a lottery,…
Physicists study physical space. Geneticists study biological space. In Our Quest for Effective Living, author Fred Emil Katz studies social space. This isn’t the kind of social space we access…
Despite the rain outside, the crowd inside the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County’s new museum walked and learned as they toured the galleries and learned from the…
When the Jewish people were in peril of being totally extinguished, Ireland — or ‘Eire’, as the 26 counties were then called — did not lift a finger to help…
…1939, at age 12, he was sent to England on a Kindertransport. He was a committed supporter of Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam, a village in Israel where Jewish and Arab families…
Otto was 17 years old when his father Karl and his mother Bertha put him on a train bound for Holland. It was August 18, 1939. He was the youngest…