Jewish History & Culture: Migration Stories
This first post in our new series on Jewish History and Culture looks at stories of movement and…
Holocaust
The Liberation of the Camps: 8 May 1945, Theresienstadt
By May 1945 all of the concentration and extermination camps across Europe had been liberated. In this final piece…
The Liberation of the Camps: 15 April 1945, Bergen-Belsen
The Bergen-Belsen camp is perhaps one of the best-known of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the…
Kristallnacht and the Nazi Imagination
How were the Nazis able to conceive of eradicating an entire people… of ‘A World Without Jews’? This…
Primo Levi and the War
Midway through the Second World War Primo Levi had just embarked upon a career in chemistry. Despite the…
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt
How could humans have committed all those atrocities that characterised the Holocaust? Were they all monsters and sadists,…
‘Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis’. Author Article by Michael Haas
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis explores the legacy of those musicians persecuted by the Third…