Holocaust

Ben Helfgott, a Polish Jew who, after being liberated from Nazi imprisonment in 1945 weighing a skeletal 80 pounds, became an Olympic weight lifter for Britain, his adopted country, and who later dedicated himself to a public life of…

Rosina Roet. Adelheid Roet. Abraham Roet.The names of those three Dutch Jews and others who died in the Holocaust could have easily been lost to history, their individual humanity snuffed out under the overwhelming weight of six million…

LONDON: Ben Helfgott, one of Britain's best known Holocaust survivors who represented the country twice as an Olympic weightlifter, died on Friday (Jun 16) aged 93. The Holocaust Educational Trust, one of the education charities with which…

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The story of Varian Fry, a US journalist who helped some 2,000 of Europe’s imperilled artists, writers and refugees escape from Nazi-occupied Europe, has inspired the new Netflix series “Transatlantic”. FRANCE 24…

Descendants of the 400,000 Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto marked the 80th anniversary of their doomed uprising against their Nazi occupiers on Wednesday with concerts, exhibitions and speeches given by Polish,…

Issued on: 19/04/2023 - 09:00 Poland will on Wednesday mark 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when hundreds of Jews launched a doomed attack against the Nazis,…

It is one of the most emblematic events of World War II. On April 19, 1943 a handful of Jewish fighters revolted against Nazi barbarism that had methodically undertaken the deportation and extermination of 400,000…

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Written by Hafsa Khalil, CNNLondonA painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby's in London.Part of the auction house's Modern…