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These hidden songs survived the Holocaust – and helped singers to endure their own survival

These hidden songs survived the Holocaust – and helped singers to endure their own survival

A new collection of 80-year-old songs, passed around Holocaust survivors, emerged from a discovery in a Sydney closet.

16.06.2026 10

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Jan Lanicek

Friday essay: the Nuremberg Trials at 80 – could such a reckoning ever happen again?

Nuremberg, often called ‘history’s greatest trial’, officially opened on October 18 1945. It held senior Nazi leaders to account for war crimes...

17.10.2025 20

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Friday essay: who was Anne Frank?

Anne Frank has come to symbolise many things. Can we ‘restore her as a human being’?

15.08.2025 20

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Jan Lanicek