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The Passenger, ENO - review

20.09.11
Mieczslaw Weinberg's opera The Passenger is different to other works of art that have dealt with Auschwitz... more

INTERVIEW: Wilhelm Sasnal

15.09.11
For a major new London exhibition, the Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal draws on everything from the Holocaust to family life. Anything can serve as inspiration, he says... more

The Emperor Of Atlantis / Grimeborn, Arcola - review

18.08.11
Composer Viktor Ullmann and librettist Peter Kien wrote The Emperor of Atlantis while in the Terezin concentration camp. It got them transferred to Auschwitz... more

Song of heroism from Auschwitz unites Katy, 29, with 'inspirational' Kazik, 91

06.04.11
London singer struck up an unlikely friendship with a 91-year-old man after writing a song about his escape from Auschwitz in 1942 ... more

Remembering a family at war under dark skies

11.11.10
If darker London streets mean we can see stars once again, it will help us remember our pasts... more

Auschwitz survivor, 79, tells her story for Holocaust Memorial Day

26.01.10
Lilli Ebert - prisoner A10572 - is determined that the world never forgets what happened at the largest Nazi death camp... more

City Spy: Top-shelf titles pay for West Ham

21.01.10
Among the acres of adulation about David Gold and David Sullivan “rescuing” West Ham United, there has been little mention of the means by which they gained their fortunes... more

Auschwitz sign is cut into pieces

21.12.09
The Arbeit Macht Frei sign which was stolen from the gate of the former Nazi death camp in Auschwitz has been found, police revealed... more

Excerpts from George Sodini's blog

05.08.09
Excerpts from George Sodini's blog:... more

Chris Moyles hits out at 'boring' BBC following Sachsgate scandal

14.07.09
Chris Moyles has hit out at BBC red tape and the lengths that the corporation goes to not to cause upset... more

Sporting Miscellanies

13.07.09
That legendary Michael Owen Brochure has already spawned its spoofs... more

Hollywood marketing man is donor in first male face swap

22.05.09
A Vietnam War veteran has become the first man in the world to have a face transplant... more

Gordon Brown visits Auschwitz

28.04.09
Gordon Brown was today visiting the former Nazi death camps at Auschwitz... more

Sea of stories in Forced Voyages

27.03.09
A survey of the paintings of Jewish artists who came to Britain after fleeing Nazi Germany tells of tragic journeys and rich inner lives in Forced Voyages.... more

Moyles adds listeners in spite of Auschwitz gaffe

29.01.09
Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles has increased his listening figures despite controversial remarks about Auschwitz he made on his breakfast show... more

BBC regrets Moyles jokes on Auschwitz

21.01.09
The BBC expressed regret over jokes by DJ Chris Moyles about Auschwitz concentration camp and gay singer Will Young... more

Holocaust chic or a true examination of good and evil?

18.12.08
As a controversial film starring Kate Winslet as a death camp guard opens in London in the new year, one cultural commentator considers the moral issues and ambiguities it raises... more

Winslet's a winner in The Reader

18.12.08
The Reader, Stephen Daldry's sensitive film of a controversial book about a former Auschwitz guard, gives Kate her best role in years.... more

My brave parents made the ultimate sacrifice

20.11.08
This Sunday Prince Charles will be at the 70th anniversary celebrations of the rescue of 10,000 children from Nazi Germany. Here one of them tells his extraordinary story ... more

Rich talent for Portait Prize

06.11.08
In the same gallery as some of the most expensive shoots in history are images by little-known photographers for the 15th Photographic Portrait Prize.... more

Don't forget Boy in the Striped Pyjamas book

17.09.08
If you want your children to learn more about the Holocaust, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas isn't going to help — but then that was never John Boyne’s intention.... more

My five-year battle to exorcise the ghosts of Sarajevo

29.07.08
The recent arrest of Radovan Karadzic has brought back painful memories for former war correspondent Charlotte Eagar... more

Special two seal Chelsea's destiny

01.05.08
Frank Lampard and Avram Grant put their troubles aside on a night of raw emotions to prove the real heroes for the successful Blues... more

A long, cool look at genocide

02.11.07
The Investigation achieves a chilling, contemporary resonance, providing a gruelling but unforgettable experience of genocide.... more

All hail Jesus, he's the new Bono

06.06.07
Abie Philbin Bowman's intermittently insightful in-character monologue Jesus: The Guantánamo Years is an intriguing assault on Bushism.... more

Brook heads Young Vic line-up

23.05.07
Five Beckett plays by veteran director Peter Brook and a Rwandan take on the Holocaust are two of the highlights in the Young Vic's new season.... more


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