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Torn from home

27 January 2019 By Jason Hewitt

Entrance to Auschwitz

2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of World War Two. The theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (held every year on 27 January) is ‘Torn from Home’. Jason Hewitt considers these two facts, and why we must not forget them, for Historia. Reflections on the holocaust seem particularly relevant in today’s troubled […]

Three White Pebbles

18 January 2017 By Wendy Holden

Wendy Holden’s latest book, Born Survivors, tells the true stories of three young mothers who hid their pregnancies from the Nazis and gave birth in unspeakable conditions in concentration and slave labour camps. Here, she explains how reconnecting with Nature helped her get through the harrowing research. Anyone watching us during those breezy Spring days would […]

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