Participants in the upcoming two-part BBC One documentary My Family, The Holocaust and Me have described the experience of filming as both “extremely moving” and “an enormous privilege”...

During the two-part series the star, who is most well known for his role as Judge Rinder on the popular ITV reality court show of the same name, helps others try to find out more about what happened to their family members during the Holocaust...

Without knowing the brutal history of this place, the sprawling mound rising from the earth just outside the town of Voranova, in Belarus, could easily be overlooked...

Just over 80 years ago, the Jews of Europe were getting their first wholesale glimpse of the horrors yet to engulf them, as Kristallnacht, the November 1938 industrial-level destruction and looting of Jewish property and businesses, exploded throughout Germany and Austria...

Two years ago, while making an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, Robert Rinder uncovered the full extent of his maternal grandfather’s Holocaust story...

Following the first part of Robert Rinder’s documentary My Family, The Holocaust and Me airing on BBC One, moved viewers felt compelled to look into their own family history...

How did My Family, the Holocaust and Me come about?...

Two years ago, barrister and TV personality Robert Rinder appeared on a moving episode of Who Do You Think You Are? to trace the fate of his mother’s family during the Holocaust...

In 2018, Robert “Judge” Rinder took part in the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?, discovering the story of his maternal grandfather, a Holocaust survivor who found a new life in the Lake District as one of the 300 Windermere children...

Appearing on the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? often proves to be an emotional experience, but it had a particularly profound effect on Robert Rinder as he learned more about his grandfather’s experiences during the Second World War...