Each April, at this time, Budapest confronts one of the darkest chapters in its history: the mass murder of Jews from the city’s ghetto in the final months of the Second World War. By late 1944, Hungary’s Jewish population had already endured ghettoisation, forced labour and the deportation of hundreds of thousands to Auschwitz. Racial […]
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UK-linked Holocaust denier defies french court
One of the world’s most notorious Holocaust deniers – well known to UK nazis and revisionists – was last week sentenced by an appeal court in Paris to 12 months house arrest. Vincent Reynouard will be required to wear an electronic tag and was ordered to pay €1,500 damages to the leading French anti-racist organisation […]
Nazi publisher hit by raids across Europe
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 […]
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 […]