Keren David

1 month ago | thejc.com | Keren David

Flags and bunting were on display among the Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine to celebrate the end of the war, where “most of the Yishuv are wondering what is going to happen with regard to the Jewish Brigade, which in the short period of its active service at the front gave such a good account of itself”.

1 month ago | thejc.com | Keren David

Evidence of unspeakably foul German crime at the SS concentration camp at Ohrdruf, near Erfurt, where nearly 4,000 prisoners were butchered, was released this week in the form of a number of photographs taken at the camp by American soldiers. In common with most other newspapers the Jewish Chronicle felt that these pictures were too horrible to publish.

2 months ago | thejc.com | Keren David

The Burial Ground was used from 1812, and the last interment is believed to have been in 1941. Today, it is the only remaining physical site of the city’s Jewish heritage, as the synagogue was demolished in the 1960s. On Sunday, the sun shone on beautifully tended graves, as more than 40 people, Jewish and non-Jewish, joined in with memorial prayers and heard the rabbi read the list of 36 names.

2 months ago | thejc.com | Keren David

I worried and worried, and then my friend came up with the answer. The United Synagogue have created a visitors’ centre at Bushey Old Cemetery, using a prayer hall that isn’t needed any more now that most burials take place at Bushey New. For a few hundred pounds, we could hire the space, and order in food from Daniel’s of Temple Fortune. The US would provide tables and chairs, and a waitress. I have to admit that I was a little dubious. Yes – it all sounded wonderfully convenient.

2 months ago | thejc.com | Keren David

The brothers and their mother were brought face to face with Mengele. “He asked my mother one word,” Gyuri recalled, “ ‘Zwillinge [Twins]?’ My mother did not speak German, but instinctively she replied, ‘Ja.’ ” Their mother’s one-word answer to Mengele’s question “meant life for us,” Gyuri said, for the boys were immediately separated for experimentation. Their mother, however, was sent in a different direction. “My last memory of my mother is that she is holding my hand and we are separated.