Holocaust

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The 1920s desecration of a Gutenberg Bible shocked the US – but miraculously gave a Jewish family new life in Australia
Michael Visontay discovered that a ‘crime against history’ in the book world set off a chain of events that led to his family’s delicatessen in 1950s Sydney

Kelly Burke

26, Nov, 2024 @2:00 PM

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The Spoils director says film forces art world to confront ‘loaded issue’ of restitution
Documentary shows the fight to recover paintings that Jewish art dealer was forced to sell by the Nazis

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

10, Nov, 2024 @2:41 PM

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Eighty years after thousands of Greek Jews were murdered, Thessaloniki’s Holocaust museum is finally set to open
Germany is among donors committing millions to the long-awaited project, to be completed in 2026, which will tell story of those who perished

Helena Smith in Thessaloniki

03, Nov, 2024 @5:00 AM

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Lily Ebert obituary
Auschwitz survivor and writer determined to bear witness to the experience of all Holocaust victims

Stephen Bates

14, Oct, 2024 @4:23 PM

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King Charles honours ‘extraordinary’ Holocaust survivor after death aged 100
King pays tribute to Lily Ebert’s ‘resilience and courage’ and praises her work as writer and educator

Harriet Sherwood

09, Oct, 2024 @4:11 PM

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The Guardian view on a year of civilian slaughter in the Middle East: a region in flames
Editorial: The spiralling violence wrought by Hamas atrocities, and Israel’s retaliation in Gaza, cannot be ended by military means

Editorial

06, Oct, 2024 @5:30 PM

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Show shines light on overlooked artist who made UK’s first Holocaust memorial
Work of German-Jewish sculptor Fred Kormis, who fled Nazis in 1930s, will be subject of an exhibition in London

Ben Quinn

23, Sep, 2024 @1:18 PM

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Dutch row over which victims of Nazis get ‘stumbling stone’ plaques
Commemorations of 45 people ‘experimentally’ gassed reveal dark moments in the Netherlands’ history

Senay Boztas in Amsterdam

21, Sep, 2024 @10:05 AM

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Hundreds of Jews were offered the chance to escape Nazi Austria. Civil servants in the UK turned them away
New book reveals civil servants in Northern Ireland ignored or rejected most applications to job creation scheme, with only about 100 admitted

Rory Carroll

14, Sep, 2024 @1:00 PM

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Czech street named after British man who saved Jewish children from Nazis
Nicholas Winton’s ‘Kinder’ return to Prague to honour man who organised rescue of 669 children

Harriet Sherwood

03, Sep, 2024 @2:30 PM

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‘A punch to the country’: German Jewish groups and minorities aghast at AfD victory
Holocaust survivors shocked at extent of support for far-right party while people of colour fear for their safety

Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

03, Sep, 2024 @11:53 AM

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From Darkness to Light review – Jerry Lewis’ infamous Holocaust film rescued from oblivion
Lewis grappled with serious themes with The Day the Clown Cried, but as this documentary reveals, to the end he remained haunted by its failure

Xan Brooks

01, Sep, 2024 @2:45 PM

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