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‘No one but Jews lost their apartments’: how homes taken by Nazis in wartime Paris were never given back

New book reveals tens of thousands of Jews who survived WW2 were not allowed to return to homes in French capital

The 1935 photograph shows Israël and Hélène Malowanczyk standing on the balcony of the…

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past?

After the second world war, Germany’s contrition and radical self-cleansing, und…

The Last Musician of Auschwitz review – an exceptionally moving film that will ring in your ears for years

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, now 99, escaped death in the concentration camp because she played the cello. As this intelligent, chilling and devastating documentary shows, music proved a curse and a comfo…

Auschwitz's Death Wall: How the Nazis shot thousands of inmates in front of structure - before Polish Pope John Paul II knelt in the same spot and prayed for peace

It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. Above: The wall today and John Paul II in 1979.

The horror of Auschwitz in pictures: Images taken during death camp's liberation 80 years ago show skeletal survivors, mountains of possessions and the Nazis' attempts to cover up mass murder

These were the horrific scenes that met the Soviet 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front as they opened the gates of Auschwitz in what had been Nazi-occupied Poland

My grandpa chose not to speak about his Holocaust experiences – but he asked me to tell the world | Ella Garai-Ebner

As the grandchild of a survivor, I’m proud to keep his testimony alive, in the hope that people never forget the horrors humanity is capable of

Yesterday, I watched A Real Pain in the cinema. The film…

The town that turned into Hell: 80 years after the death camp was liberated, then-and-now pictures reveal how life has changed in the Polish town the Nazis transformed... into Auschwitz

With a history dating back to the 12th century, today the local council describes it as 'a city of peace'. But for the rest of the world, the town is known for one thing - the Nazi death camp Auschwi…

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