Judaism

Men from Bethlehem in Jerusalem in 1894, when the territory identified as Palestine was part of the Ottoman empire. At the start of the 19th century Palestine's population was mostly Arab, with a small Jewish minority, but from the 1880s waves of settlers rapidly augmented the Jewish population (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Israel and the Palestinians: a history of conflict in 8 key episodes

Dean Irwin explains the story of the 1190 anti-Semitic massacre at Clifford’s Tower in York, and how it fits into the wider story of England’s medieval Jewish population. (Image by Getty Images)

The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism

Tim Grady gives a lecture exploring the varied experiences of German Jews in the First World War. (Image by Getty Images)

First World War

German Jews in WW1

Kenneth Austin explores what impact the Reformation had on Europe’s Jewish communities. (Image by Getty Images)

How did the Reformation impact Jews?

Aerial view of the outside of Treblinka extermination camp, Germany, 1943. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Second World War

Laurence Rees on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: “What they told us was, at the time, they felt it was the right thing to do”

The expulsion of Jews from France in 1182. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Jews of medieval England

Aleksander Kulisiewicz, wearing a concentration camp uniform, performs at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Italy, 1965. (Image: Kulisiewicz family)

Second World War

The Library Songs of the Holocaust: the music of Aleksander Kulisiewicz

Marie-Louise Colombain, shown here in her prisoner photo from Auschwitz, was a partisan sergeant who carried out militant actions against the Nazis before her arrest in 1941. During her imprisonment at Auschwitz, she made clothes for the Nazi elite alongside the camp's other dressmakers. (Used with permission from Lucy Adlington/History Wardrobe)

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Sewing for the Nazis: who were the dressmakers of Auschwitz?

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The big questions of the Holocaust

A scene from the 'Desert Dance', a staging in the Jewish theatre in the Warsaw Ghetto (from a Nazi propaganda series), July 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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The Library The Holocaust on stage

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In pictures: Blood – Jewish sex, circumcision and culture

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Unique Jewish exhibition to open in Cardiff next year

It was in this villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee that one of history’s most infamous conferences was staged. (Getty)

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The Wannsee Conference

Russian and Polish women liberated from a forced labour camp

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Voices of the Holocaust