Holocaust

On receiving a press release about the Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration organized by Birmingham City Council (BCC), The Jewish Telegraph noticed that the words “Jews” and “Jewish” were completely absent. The BCC press release stated that the event, led by Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Zafar Iqbal,  “commemorates the victims and…

“I’ve been teaching for over 20 years, and I don’t think this would have been revealed in a survey two decades ago,” says Tom Noone. A history teacher at Naas CBS in Co Kildare, Noone was “shocked” by a survey which found almost one in 10 young adults (9 per…

OpenAI may have called GPT-5.2 its "most advanced frontier model for professional work," but tests conducted by the Guardian cast doubt on its credibility. According to the report, OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cited Grokipedia, the online encyclopedia powered by xAI, when it came to specific, but controversial topics related to Iran…

Baroness Ruth Deech and her daughter Sarah, Eddie Caplan and his mother Amy, Jackie Young, Ivor Perl, Mala Tribich and Joanna Millan, after lighting candles during the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) Holocaust Memorial Day Service, at Belsize Square Synagogue in London, January 20, 2026. (Photo: PA Images via Reuters)…

Gideon Bayer with his son Urija (Photo courtesy of Friends of Israel Defense Forces) Gideon Bayer, a resident of the northern Israeli town of Ma’alot, walked the grounds of Auschwitz in Poland last month, remembering that his own parents had dedicated their lives to comforting Holocaust survivors in the wake…

Half of all the adults surveyed in Ireland did not know that six million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust, while 1 in 12 young adults believed it never happened, according to a new survey commissioned by the Claims Conference.  In the survey, which polled a sample of 1,000…

Joe Engel was and remains an icon in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Zakroczym, Poland, he survived Auschwitz and several other concentration camps and fought with the resistance before landing on American shores as a refugee in 1949. After retirement from his dry-cleaning business, Engel focused his later years on…

A menorah is pictured on Dec. 20, 2025, after the seventh candle is lit for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah as mourners stand next to floral tributes in memory of the victims of the mass killing at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Photo by DAVID GRAY /AFP via Getty Images…

A new poll has revealed worrying levels of Holocaust denial among young people in Ireland, prompting warnings from broadcaster Ciara Kelly that the trend is “rooted in antisemitism." Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany conducted a poll of over 1,000 Irish…

Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders likes to lecture others and is known for taking on a holier-than-thou tone while pushing his socialist agenda, but I’m very curious how he’s going to explain this one. You see, he’s been on the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum since 2007 —…