• Harry Skeggs – 32 CSS

    The funeral of Harry Skeggs, a committed and engaged member of St Catherine’s congregation for over sixty years, took place at Chelmsford Crematorium on Wednesday 10th May 2017.  Below is an edited version of the tribute and address given at that service.  16,111 total views

  • Jack Marcovitch – Canadian Jewish News.

    Jack Marcovitch (1923-1994) was born in Montreal, Canada. His original page can be found HERE. In 2025, for the 80th anniversary of the liberation Marcovitch’s daughters—Linda Eisenberg and Gloria Borts—join The CJN Daily to share what their father brought home with him and how the trauma marked him for life. The interview has been reproduced here with the kind permission of The CJN.  6,936 total views

  • The U.K. Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey

    Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), today (November 10, 2021) announced the release of a United Kingdom Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey including a comparison among England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all of which show a surprising lack of awareness of key historical Holocaust facts, including the U.K.’s own connection to Holocaust history.  15,048 total views

  • Sydney Gottlieb

    General practitioner who became a leading psychiatrist to jazz musicians, actors, and writers.  21,844 total views

  • Sister Mary Bond (29th BGH)

    Posted with 29th British General Hospital (29th BGH) to Belsen in May 1945, by which time ‘I was proud to be a senior Sister with many added responsibilities’.  15,752 total views

  • Paula Mandell

    “A photo of my late Grandmother, Paula Mandell, after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen.” Says Michael V. Gruber  17,187 total views

  • Gisella Perl

    Gisella Perl (10 December 1907 – 16 December 1988) was a Hungarian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women as inmate gynecologist without the bare necessities to perform her work.  18,349 total views