Heidi Kingstone

London

Writer and Journalist at Freelance

Journalist & author of Dispatches from the Kabul Cafe https://t.co/tPDoaByVfZ…

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Why April really is the cruelest month

2 months ago | thecaliforniacourier.com | Heidi Kingstone

Tulips, daisies, lilacs, hosts of daffodils…and genocide: all proliferate in April. Suicide and depression rates are highest in April and perhaps it is no surprise that Genocide Awareness Month also falls now, the beginning of the fourth month of the year: a time of renewal, the end of decay, the possibility of hope, brighter skies — and the killing season. “April is the cruellest month,” as T.S. Eliot says in The Waste Land.
Why April really is the cruellest month

2 months ago | thearticle.com | Heidi Kingstone |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Tulips, daisies, lilacs, hosts of daffodils…and genocide: all proliferate in April. Suicide and depression rates are highest in April and perhaps it is no surprise that Genocide Awareness Month also falls now, the beginning of the fourth month of the year: a time of renewal, the end of decay, the possibility of hope, brighter skies — and the killing season. “April is the cruellest month,” as T.S. Eliot says in The Waste Land.
‘I had to grab my identity’ – the tattoo artist cancelled for being Jewish now inundated with requests for Hebrew art - The Jewish Chronicle

Jan 30, 2025 | thejc.com | Elisa Bray |Heidi Kingstone |Jacob Jaffa |Jane Prinsley

Since tattoo artist Adam Silas told his story of a client cancelling an appointment “because he is Jewish” to the JC, he has been inundated with jobs. What’s more, most of the tattoos he is being commissioned are Jewish-themed. Last year, Silas received a message from a former client reading: “It has come to my attention that you are Jewish. Is this true?
How Lives Become 'Expendable': What We Have Learned From a Century of Genocides

Jan 30, 2025 | rsn.org | Heidi Kingstone

From first-person accounts of the Armenian and Yazidi genocides, to Anne Frank's diary and the Nuremberg prosecutor who 'peered into hell', we need to listen to those who experienced genocide, to seek accountability – and take heed of the early warning signsBefore October 7th, 2023, the word 'genocide' was not particularly topical in the wider world. It was a term relegated to the past or perhaps associated with human rights abuses in distant lands.
‘Sexual assault can take place in our community. So let’s break the silence’ - The Jewish Chronicle

Jan 29, 2025 | thejc.com | Elisa Bray |Heidi Kingstone |Jacob Jaffa |Jane Prinsley

It can be hard to accept that something as terrible as sexual assault could ever take place within our loving, supportive Jewish community. But abuse can happen anywhere. A young woman victim has now decided to waive her anonymity – both to shine a light on the fact that sexual abuse exists in the Jewish community as it does in any other, and to encourage other women to speak out. In telling her story to the JC, Nathalie Freedman, 27, hopes to prevent it from happening to others.
The woman with two hearts who survived Auschwitz

Jan 27, 2025 | thejc.com | Heidi Kingstone

When I met Sandy Fainer, she lived on the same street as Miss Shepherd, a homeless woman who camped in playwright Alan Bennett’s driveway in London’s Regent’s Park area. He wrote the 2015 film, The Lady in the Van, about her. She would bark at Sandy’s two young children as they walked home, terrifying them. Sandy had moved to London from Toronto many years before I did, but we became fast friends, and I learned about a small, cloth origami heart made for her mother at Auschwitz.
Resistance to the Nazis

Jan 27, 2025 | thearticle.com | Heidi Kingstone |Ali M. Mahmoud |Sameer Hinduja

“The British would never have gone to the slaughter like the Jews did in Nazi Germany,” someone once said to me. That sentence angered me and stopped me in my tracks. Many years later, I am still reacting to its ignorance and arrogance. Frankly, what could all the victims of the Holocaust —Jews, Sinti, Roma, homosexuals, political prisoners — have done in the face of the terrifying German army? There weren’t many who went willingly to their death.
How lives become 'expendable': What we have learnt from a century of genocides | Opinion

Jan 26, 2025 | haaretz.com | Heidi Kingstone

Before October 7th, 2023, the word 'genocide' was not particularly topical in the wider world. It was a term relegated to the past or perhaps associated with human rights abuses in distant lands.
The heart of Auschwitz

Jan 25, 2025 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Heidi Kingstone

Joy was not an emotion often seen in the death camp of Auschwitz, where more than a million Jews were murdered. Nor were acts of humanity, or the ability to show defiance much in evidence. But Fania Landau and Zlatka Snajderhauz managed this minor miracle. By the time the Soviet Red Army arrived to liberate the camp on January 27, 1945 – now 80 years ago – only 7,000 prisoners were left.
Why journalists are cautious about calling current conflicts 'genocide'

Dec 9, 2024 | pressgazette.co.uk | Heidi Kingstone |Big Questions

When I began writing my book Genocide: Personal Stories, Big Questions in 2020, people’s eyes glazed over when I discussed the atrocities committed in the 20th and 21st centuries. One person said they weren’t interested because they weren’t Jewish, and another noted that it only occurred in the past. , and while we haven’t been much good at preventing genocide, we need to keep trying, and central to that is the role of journalism.