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New Evidence about Raoul Wallenberg

12 August 2016Articles, Diaspora, Holocaust, Soviet Jewry, Universal questionsColin Shindler

”I have no doubts that Wallenberg was liquidated in 1947.” So noted the newly emerged diary of Ivan Serov, head of the KGB between 1954 and 1958 during the post-Stalinist thaw, regarding the fate of the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in wartime Budapest. It seemed to confirm that Raoul Wallenberg had not…

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Britain’s Moment in Palestine

1 January 2016Book Reviews, Holocaust, World Leaders, Zionist HistoryColin Shindler

Britain’s Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives 1917–1948, Michael J. Cohen (New York and London: Routledge, 2014), isbn 978-0-415-72985-7, pp. 518, £90.   This is a revelatory book, which comprehensively details Britain’s contentious and anguished moment in Palestine as ruler and colonizer. In one sense this is a solid “old-fashioned” factual overview of British policy during the thirty…

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The “Thunderer” and The Coming of The Shoah: The Times of London, 1933-1942

1 January 2003Academic, Articles, Holocaust, Universal questionsColin Shindler

  The Times and “Englishness” In May 1784, John Walter, a bankrupted Lloyds underwriter wrote to is patron, Benjamin Franklin, the American Minister in pre-revolutionary Paris, to inform him that he intended to publish a newspaper. On 1 January 1785, Walter’s project appeared as The Daily Universal Register. Three years later, the title was changed…

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Alexander Bernfes

1 June 1986Articles, Diaspora, HolocaustColin Shindler

A few months ago, in London, Alexander Bernfes—a pitiful and tragic figure, known to any as a collector and archivist of photographic cords of the Holocaust, died at the age of seventy-six. His body was found, weeks after his death, in a state of decomposition, on a pile of papers in the room which served…

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