In 1981, @StarTrek II: Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer was sitting on set, reading the paper, when he saw something that made him jump out of his chair. Few people know that it made its way into the film and connects the death of Spock with a great hero of the 20th Century.

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Here is a photo of Růžičková at Bergen-Belsen about a month or two after liberation, when she would have been working as translator in the camp hospital run by the British.

I had the very considerable privilege of singing in 2 performances of Shostakovich's Babi Yar symphony last week with the @BBCNOW, and the second is broadcast on @BBCRadio3 from 7.30PM tonight. Available on Sounds afterwards. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w8h…

Rather than go to a gallery here in Madrid, I walked across town to see the apartment block from where a postwar Nazi escape network was run by the formidable Clarita Stauffer, whose father ran the Mahou brewery. She is estimated to have helped some 800 escape. Worth a Google.

For the first time in a long while: Recent Holocaust-related news collected in the Reading List. If you find this useful, please share! holocaustreader.com/2024/02/…

Anne Frank and her family were betrayed by a neighbour 79 years ago. In 1987 I covered the trial of the Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie. Hearing that a man he’d arrested still lived near Lyon, I went to interview him. ‘How did Barbie know about you?’ I asked. ‘My neighbour betrayed me.’ ‘What happened to him?’ ‘He’s still my neighbour.’ And indeed I could see that the neighbour was actually in his garden, listening to us. He ran indoors when we started filming him. Imagine living 40 years next to the man who’d sent you to a concentration camp.

The use of atrocity images remains a common dilemma for those teaching about the Holocaust. No right-minded teacher aims to deliberately shock or traumatise students, but does that really mean a blanket ban on any images? @ralenga agonises on this Q in uclpress.co.uk/products/1315…

Jonathan Glazer's film adaptation of Martin Amis's Holocaust novel has just premiered at Cannes.

In 2023, there are still eye witnesses bringing forward new information about the Second World War. theguardian.com/world/2023/m…

Review of the documentary The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018) from @HolocaustReader. (cc @AuschwitzMuseum) holocaustreader.com/2020/04/…

OK. Here's an idea. What if everybody wore blue and yellow on Tuesday 1 March to show that we #StandWithUkraine? It's the very least we can do. Retweet if you're up for it! PLEASE let's make this happen. #blueyellowTuesday

“Last known surviving fighter of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising dies at age 97 - The Times of Israel” timesofisrael.com/last-known…

A roundup of new books on the Holocaust published this summer. Your likes and retweets really do help the blog reach new audiences! holocaustreader.com/2021/08/…

If I may add another contribution to your list, Michael Custodis just published a book about Music in Nazi-occupied Norway, including a larger chapter about persecuted artists. It is available open access at musicandresistance.net/publi…

Some comments on a recent biography of Charlotte Delbo, a title which was featured in a New Books post at holocaustreader.com recently. Thanks Victoria!