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Esther presents Sir Martin’s Blogs for Holocaust Memorial Day

February 1, 2017 Martin Gilbert

The theme of Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 – How can life go on? – invites us to consider the challenges faced by survivors of the Holocaust in rebuilding their lives after the end of the Second World War. Perhaps the most powerful example of resilience and renewal is that told…

Peeling back the layers of History

February 1, 2017 Martin Gilbert

Among the stories told at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust remembrance and research centre in Israel, is that of the Righteous, those non-Jewish individuals and organizations who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Beginning in 1962, trees were planted in honour of these rescuers, a veritable forest of…