His parents and sister perished at Auschwitz concentration camp. Sixty-five years later, Walter Kammerling ensured their memories lived on during moving Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations in Bournemouth. As a youth,…
…at the station in time for the unveiling of a memorial plaque which commemorates the arrival of a kindertransport train carrying Jewish refugees at Lowestoft railway station in December 1938….
Susi Bechhofer visited a school as part of a week of events marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Susi Bechhofer, who escaped Nazi Germany on…
Vernon W. Fischer, a popular retired professor at St. Louis University School of Medicine, died Tuesday (Feb. 2, 2010)after a lengthy illness and a stroke last year. Colleagues said Professor…
Martin Maxwell, 85, was 14 years old and about three months shy of earning a high school diploma when he fled Vienna in 1939. Maxwell escaped to England, joined the…
Class 4 of St. Teilo’s School, Tenby, remembers Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27). Class 4 of St. Teilo’s School, Tenby, remembered Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27) when Mrs. Annette Hollows…
“I was 11-years-old, came home from school and my father said I could not go back to school the next day,” said Anne Herrman, a resident of Greenspring Village in…
…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,…