One of Europe’s most active nazi publishers has been hit by coordinated police raids in Germany, Poland, and Spain. Der Schelm (which translates as The Rogue or The Knave) has been active since 2014 trying to exploit loopholes in European laws to circulate hardcore nazi material. Its founder Adrian Preissinger is now 61 years old […]
Holocaust
Obituary: Leon Greenman
Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written by Julie Waterson, National Organiser of the Anti-Nazi League from 1992-2005, who herself sadly died in 2012.
War criminal exposed by Searchlight will face trial posthumously
The Supreme Court of Belarus has announced that it will begin criminal proceedings against Antanas Gecevičius, better known in Scotland as Antanas Gecas, for genocide. The case is scheduled to open on 18 March. The defendant has been dead for 25 years. For anyone who followed Searchlight’s investigations in the late1980s into Nazi war criminals […]
Theatre review: Here There Are Blueberries, by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
This extraordinary production at Stratford East lands with the quiet, cumulative force of a dossier being opened in front of you. What emerges is not a conventional piece of Holocaust drama but an inquiry into how very ordinary people become functionaries of atrocity, and how institutions charged with memorialising victims must navigate the unsettling images […]
New Hampshire idiocy saves day for Holocaust denial ‘summit’
Eleven days later than advertised, fugitive nazi and all-round weirdo Germar Rudolf managed to broadcast his Holocaust denial ‘summit’ conference last weekend. We reported two weeks ago how his first attempt to hold the event had to be called off when Amazon pulled the plug on it. He was a little more successful second time […]
Artur Gold: the violinist of Treblinka
In the summer of 2013 I interviewed Samuel Willenberg, at the time the last surviving participant of the Jewish revolt at Treblinka, the Nazi death camp in Eastern Poland. During the interview, he reminisced about Artur Gold, the famous Jewish violinist, and leader of the Treblinka orchestra. He told me: “As we stood during evening […]