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Antiques Roadshow special for Holocaust Memorial Day

The BBC’s popular show will look at artefacts from the Shoah to explore their stories

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Remember Lea, Deddie, Annie and David – children’s ID tags found at Sobibor

Harrowing details of four youngsters aged between six and 12 reduces archaeologists to tears during excavation of infamous site in Poland.

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Rob Rinder and Melone M’kenzy feature in HMD short film about racism

TV judge and actress front 90 second video called 'Darkness to Light' which exposes racial ideology

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For this survivor, Covid immunity is a chance start telling his story again

One year after George Shefi spoke to Prince Charles about the Shoah, he received his second jab and is now looking to educate young Germans about the Holocaust once more

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OPINION: Remembering the Shoah reminds us genocide against faith still exists

Mustafa Field and Rabbi Natan Levy urge people to get to know their neighbours to avoid prejudice and hatred

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Houses of Parliament, London Eye and Wembley Stadium to light up for HMD

More than 25 iconic British landmarks will be bathed in purple light in memory of six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust

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HMD: ‘Gena Turgel was my light in the darkness. Now, I must be that for her’

Karen Pollock remembers her friend, mentor and hero Gena Turgel, and her indefatigable determination to tell the world what happened

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Iconic British landmarks bathed in purple light to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

The Houses of Parliament, Wembley Stadium and the London Eye among 25 sites across the country lit up to remember six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust

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120 over 80: Our oldest and wisest

From rabbis and volunteers to Shoah survivors and political figures, here is part three of our celebration of the Jewish community's original social influencers!

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Israeli, Bahraini and Emirati young people mark HMD in groundbreaking ceremony

Eitan Na'eh, the ex Israeli deputy envoy to the UK, spoke emotionally about his mother who was a Shoah survivor, in one of his first outings as ambassador in the Gulf state

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Hodge to HMD debate: Starmer made ‘huge difference’ regaining community’s trust

Members of Parliament spoke out amid rising antisemitism and extremism, with one MP saying 'age-old tropes' had re-emerged due to the pandemic

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JN Podcast: Illegal weddings investigation and Holocaust Memorial Day

Guests include journalist Ellie Jacobs, the chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Olivia Marks-Woldman, young ambassador Maxwell Horner and Eyal Biram of Israel-is

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Sir David Amess: ‘I would have been proud to be born a Jew’

The Southend West MP, who was stabbed to death on Friday, made the remark during a Holocaust Memorial Day debate in January

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UK to make all records related to Shoah public, including ‘dark period’ for...

Chief Minister of Jersey John Le Fondré commits to 'transparency' as a collection of 787 books looted by the Nazis are planned to be moved to the Wiener Library

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Anger at Jimmy Carr for ‘appalling’ Holocaust joke in latest Netflix special

Comedian faces backlash for routine that appears to suggest the deaths of thousands of Roma people was 'a positive'

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OPINION: My great aunt’s story is a powerful testimony in the face of...

Images of Ukrainian women and children carrying possessions in prams, waiting for trains to take them to safety, stir the collective memory of the Jewish community.

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‘Zigi looked at his family picture on the wall every day to celebrate his...

Royal photographer Arthur Edwards, who took an extraordinary portrait of Zigi Shipper's family, says the survivor, who died last week, wanted the image to show Hitler: "I survived. I won."

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OPINION: A timeline of prejudice, from Shylock to the Shoah

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's Farayi Mungazi on why the long-lasting impact of antisemitic tropes in Merchant of Venice remain dangerously relevant today.

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Northern lights – the faces of a new Holocaust exhibition in Manchester

Powerful photographs tell the tale of indomitable survivors and the remarkable lives they formed

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Murals showing The Simpsons as Holocaust victims on train station wall

The artwork depicts the famous cartoon family before and after their deportation from the central station in Milan from which hundreds of Jews were sent to concentration camps.

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