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The Battle of Cable Street
Photo: Tower Hamlets Environment Trust plaque, 3 Dock Street, E1 London 875 words/4 ½ minute read In the last week of September 1936 the British Union of Fascists (the BUP) announced its intention to...
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Nicholas Winton’s List
Photo: The surnames of children Nicholas Winton brought to Britain 350 words / 1 ½ minute read To help Jewish children in Czechoslovakia, the Children’s Section of the British Committee for Refugees...
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“One Life” – and then another
Photo: The cover of the new edition of Barbara’s biography of her father, and the film of the same name. 350 words / 1 ½ minute read In 2013 Sir Nicholas Winton wrote this Preface to his daughter...
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Eighty years on from the “Big Week”
Photo: American bombing of German industrial sites, February 1944 Follow the new Spielberg series “Masters of the Air” with your copy of Sir Martin’s Second World War Atlas, with maps such as “The...
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Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
315 words / 1 ½ minute read “It is my duty, however, for I am sure you would wish me to state the facts as I see them to you, to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe....
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Bringing history into the present: Sir Martin’s preparation for the Journey
Photo: Sir Martin’s photo of the single-track line leading to Auschwitz from the cover of his first edition 380 words / 1 ½ minute read The material I prepared for the journey related to the history...
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How Holocaust Journey Came to Be From Esther Gilbert
375 words/1 ½ minute read Martin claimed he got the job because his employer realised he lived on the bus route to UCL. It was getting late in the summer and the professor who was meant to teach the...
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My Rudi Vrba Story by Esther Gilbert
Photo: Rudolf Vrba, about the time I first met him 550 words / 3 minute read “Can you give me some biographical information – I am introducing you.” “Martin Gilbert: Auschwitz and the Allies” came the...
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Anzac Day – 25 April: 109 years on
Photo: One of the new maps added to the 4th edition 400 words – 2 minute read In most parts of the inhabited world April brings the promise of renewal, spring with flowers bursting in colours not seen...
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Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape to file their report
Photo: Sir Martin’s map of the Vrba Wetzler escape route 350 words – 1 ½ minute read The hide-out was a gap in the woodpile, made up of wooden boards. These boards were being stored as part of the...
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