World War Two

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Code Name Kingfisher ★★★★★

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Code Name Kingfisher ★★★★★

Liv is a year-eight student in present-day UK. She's shy and uncertain and currently navigating between wanting to fit in and wanting to be herself. She's been tasked with creating a family tree, which leads to all sorts of problems when she realises her only port of call is her stern Bubbe…

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Letter to Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory

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Letter to Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory

This year is proving to be a busy and fruitful one for Mosaic Voices. Members of the resident choral group of New West End Synagogue have built on the success of the beautifully made and wonderfully atmospheric music videos they…

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IWM London opens new Holocaust galleries

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IWM London opens new Holocaust galleries

After two years in the making, the Imperial War Museum London is finally set to open its brand new Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries on Wednesday 20 October. At three times the size of their award-winning…

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Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied Tunisia ★★★★

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Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied Tunisia ★★★★

A schematic pitiless sun glares down on levels of woodblocks, standing in for sand as designed by Max Johns, on an unfortunate man apparently buried up to his neck. The figure standing over him explains that he has been…

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JR OutLoud: Bulgarian-born Dora Reisser tells her life story, from child refugee to prima ballerina and beyond

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It’s Dora Reisser’s ability to reinvent herself – from child refugee to prima ballerina, actor, screen star and fashion designer – and in such nail-biting circumstances, that makes her memoir, Dora’s Story, so gripping.  Judi Herman visited Reisser at her remarkable London home (it used to be a railway station) to hear more of the stories behind her book, which begins with the little-known history of how Bulgaria’s Jews survived the Holocaust; and about her life in the UK and Israel, including an eye-opening account of how she started her Reisser fashion house – just one of the many new stories Reisser has that could fill a sequel.

Dora's Story by Dora Reisser is out on Troubador. £9.99. www.troubador.co.uk

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