‘It was only after my mother’s death that I discovered she was a Resistance hero’
By April 1943, Sabine was being warned that the boss in the office where she worked could betray her. On 28 April 1943, she saw a military…
How I found out my grandfather was a Nazi
Joining her will be two other speakers, who will pass on memories from very different perspectives. Eitan Neishlos, 42, an Australian tech entrepreneur and philanthropist, will tell…
Tourists flock to see highly explosive Second World War shipwreck set to be partially dismantled
Martin Harmer owns the X-Pilot, a former Port of London Authority pilot boat, which offers passenger trips to a number of heritage sites off the Kent coast,…
‘An excessive amount of slaughter’: what The Longest Day got right – and wrong – about Normandy
The battle on Omaha – multiple efforts along four-and-a-half miles of beach, further mythologised by Saving Private Ryan – now seems amusingly simplified by The Longest Day….
‘She was loving, but snippy’: the real Anne Frank, by her best friend
The Goslar family was first taken to the Westerbork transit camp in the north eastern Netherlands, where they remained for eight months. Hannah’s grandfather died there. The…
Afghan Christians have been abandoned
A strange and ancient verse in the book of Deuteronomy, 26.5, has long puzzled scholars. It says, “a wandering Aramean was my father” and is at the…
How the Isle of Man became the Second World War’s strangest – and smartest – prison camp
Well before the Second World War began, Scotland Yard was already being deluged with tip-offs about German spies. As Simon Parkin relates in this compelling history, one…
How the Isle of Man became the Second World War’s strangest – and smartest – prison camp
Well before the Second World War began, Scotland Yard was already being deluged with tip-offs about German spies. As Simon Parkin relates in this compelling history, one…
In Ralph Vaughan Williams’s 150th year, it’s time to put aside our silly prejudices about him
And that brings us to the point about Vaughan Williams: he was an innovator, an experimenter, a man who absorbed the currents of what was going on…
The haphazard Blitz spirit that saved our art from the Luftwaffe
Ever since our empire took a grip on the world, we Brits have prided ourselves on being one up on Johnny Foreigner when it comes to organising…
Needs sprucing up? London’s Christmas tree gift from Norway is a little scrawny this year
Each year, the people of Norway gift Londoners a giant Christmas tree in thanks and recognition for this country’s assistance during the Second World War. But things…