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Historians will today begin combing the archives of the world’s most contentious pope, hoping to discover why Pius XII stayed silent during the Holocaust. More than 200 researchers applied for permission to settle in one of the small studies of the Vatican Apostolic Archives to begin poring over millions of letters and documents the Vatican kept … Read more
A fake ID card, troubled dreams and a mysterious box… Ariana Neumann suspected her dad had a hidden past. But it took her two decades to unravel his astonishing story of courage, survival and tragic loss Ariana with her father Hans in 1973 As a child growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, Ariana Neumann was desperate to … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK WHEN TIME STOPPED: A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER’S WAR by Ariana Neumann (Scribner £16.99, 368pp) In the opening pages of this beautifully written, heart-wrenching memoir of love and family and war is a detailed family tree of the author’s Czech heritage. It seems dauntingly complex as family trees often do, littered … Read more
Spanish carnival ‘commemorating’ the Holocaust with lingerie-clad female Nazis, a crematorium float and dancing concentration camp victims sparks fury among Jewish groups The carnival in Campo de Criptana was condemned as ‘vile and disgusting’ One float had a Hebrew menorah lamp between two crematorium chimneys The organisers claim the parade was intended to ‘honour’ Holocaust victims … Read more