The hidden Nazi past of the products you love
Original sin On February 20 1933, about two dozen of Nazi Germany’s wealthiest businessmen – among them, Günther Quandt, a textile producer turned arms-and-battery tycoon; Friedrich Flick, a…
I went to Vienna to trace my Jewish family’s tragic history – but found hope too
An unpublished memoir “On March 11 1938, a Friday, everything changed and would never be the same again,” my 95-year-old grandmother Erika Renate Przibram wrote in her…
Howard Jacobson: ‘A male writer is not obliged to like women’
In 1965 he sailed to Australia with his first wife, Barbara, to teach English literature. All the self-consciousness he’d felt at Cambridge, being Jewish, being proletarian, slipped…
Dear Richard Madeley: ‘My great grandparents were murdered in the Holocaust – how do I tell my kids?’
Dear Richard, I have two children at primary school. The older one has been doing the Second World War as a topic and it’s all been quite…
From Baghdad to Sandringham in one generation: the Sassoon guide to social climbing
Sir Victor Sassoon, the 3rd baronet and Shanghai real-estate magnate, was a man of wide interests. He was one of racing’s most successful owners, with four Derbies…