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.
Holocaust
War criminal exposed by Searchlight will face trial posthumously
The Supreme Court of Belarus has announced that it will begin criminal proceedings against Antanas Gecečičius, 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 […]
An anniversary David Irving would rather forget
Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over year, in failing health. But this year marks another anniversary which, though he will not, we celebrate happily. It is 25 years since Professor Deborah Lipstadt’s victory over Irving in a historic libel action. He […]
Fascists and antisemites mourn death of rogue bishop
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative Catholics and a world of antisemitic bigotry, Holocaust denial and fascist politics. Williamson died last month aged 84, a few days after suffering a brain haemorrhage. He had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church […]
Heritage Party leader bemoans ‘injustice’ for holocaust-denying nazi
Searchlight has been reporting for several months on the increasing radicalisation of right-wing parties. Not just the obviously racist and neo-nazi right, but the constellation of parties and groups that are just outside the Conservative Party (and sometimes overlap with the Tory right). The clearest example of this came a fortnight ago when David Kurten […]
Kristallnacht remembered
To mark the anniversary of the 1938 November Pogrom, otherwise known as Kristallnacht, we reprint a special article published by Searchlight in 1988, 50 years after the dreadful events which portended the Holocaust. Never Again.
Holocaust denier, Irving, is on his deathbed
Out of all the gloom, some good news: David Irving, the pretend historian and cheer leader for the Third Reich, is on his deathbed and is not expected to last much longer. And before we get any lectures on poor taste, remember this: Irving is an evil swine who spent much of his life minimising […]
Edinburgh court orders extradition of French Holocaust denier
First published in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine Reynouard Absconding risk means he is likely to remain in jail if he appeals HOLOCAUST DENIERs are panicking after an Edinburgh court judgment that threatens to end their use of the UK as a base for pseudo-academic anti-Semitism. On 12 October, Sheriff Chris Dickson ordered […]
Good riddance to the UK far right’s favourite revisionist
It’s boo-hoo time over at Heritage and Destiny, that vile little neo-Nazi umbrella outfit who have been campaigning more stridently than most on the far right on behalf of French nazi-loving revisionist Vincent Renouard. Renouard has been banged up in Scotland for over a year facing an extradition request from France so that he can […]
1985-1991: the Searchlight War Crimes Campaign
Amassing evidence on Nazis who fled to the UK – Siobhan Hyland reflects on Searchlight’s investigations into Nazi war crimes more than 30 years ago, as part of a campaign to seek justice for victims and their families Anton Gecas on the August 1987 cover of Searchlight, with articles inside on his war crimes and the […]
Anti- Holocaust Memorial campaigner faces extradition
Vincent Reynouard ONE OF THE key figures in the anti-Semitic campaign against a UK Holocaust Memorial, nazi and Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard (pictured above), was arrested last November while hiding out in a coastal resort near St Andrews, in Scotland, and now faces extradition to France. The decision in his extradition case is not expected […]
No mea culpa, as Bishop Williamson re‑emerges from the shadows
He kept a relatively low profile during the pandemic, but is now back on the extremist circuit, peddling anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, as Richard Pembroke explains Bishop Richard Williamson, the notorious traditional Catholic anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, has a tendency to disappear from public view for a few years and then re-emerge, unable […]
Searchlight Exclusive: Well-heeled nazis in plot to obstruct UK’s planned Holocaust Memorial
EXCLUSIVE By Tony Peters Wealthy Holocaust revisionists across the world are planning a campaign against the establishment of a Holocaust Memorial in London. Plans for the memorial, intended both as a monument to all victims of the Holocaust and as a learning centre, have been advancing since 2015, but are now attracting the hostility of […]
One Week in Warsaw – David Rosenberg reports from Warsaw where a poignant anniversary was being commemorated
First published in the Spring 2023 issue of Searchlight magazine 16th April 2023 commemorative march led by women activists photo by David Rosenberg Warsaw, Sunday 16 April. Three days before the Polish Government is due to host the official 80th anniversary commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when their chosen guests will assemble in front […]