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Daniel Finkelstein, probably best known for his political and football journalism in The Times, has now written a remarkable and deeply moving memoir about how his mother (a German Jew) and his father (a Polish Jew) somehow managed to survive the horrors inflicted by the Germans and the Russians during the Second World War. It is not a surprise that the BBC has chosen it as one of its Books of the Week. While written and published before the recent outbreak of shocking violence in the Middle East precipitated by the massacres carried out by Hamas, it nonetheless provides a relevant backdrop to...

British artist a href= http://pierssecunda.com target= _blank Piers Secunda /a presents Alderney: The Holocaust on British Soil, an exhibition of

Ayanawo Ferada Senebato and his cousins go to civil war-torn Ethiopia to ransom a book of the Orit, a version of the Bible in an ancient dialect that belonged to their ancestors

Wilhelm Hollitscher was the model for Hugo Dachinger’s painting on a copy of  The Times in 1940. Image: National Museums Liverpool INTERNMENT during the Second World War saw thousands of people rounded up and locked behind eight-metre-high barbed wire fences – an indiscriminate action of blanket arrests based on a person’s origin rather than action. One man interned was a refugee from the Nazis, Wilhelm Hollitscher – and during confinement, he kept a detailed diary. The discovery of this diary, in the archives of the Weiner Library in Bloomsbury, has prompted a new book telling the s...