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…
Viewers watching television judge Robert Rinder learn how members of his family were mercilessly shot and buried alive by Nazis in a shallow grave during the Second World War have said watching his emotional BBC documentary left them ‘broken’…
In 2018, barrister and TV presenter Robert Rinder appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? Focusing on the losses suffered by Rinder’s family in the Holocaust, it was an episode that gave rise to an outpouring of emotion from viewers…
It is a moral imperative that we hear exactly what happened to victims of the Holocaust. Yet even when you know the stinking depths of evil that the Nazis plumbed, the detail never fails to floor you; the horror never grows old. In My Family, the Holocaust and Me with Robert Rinder we heard three different stories, all traumatic, from Jewish families in Britain who were originally from Lithuania, Frankfurt and Amsterdam…
Judge Rinder is currently appearing in My Family, the Holocaust & Me with Robert Rinder, which sees him explore his own family history while help others look into what happened to their family members during the Holocaust…
Some documentaries make for tough but necessary viewing. The stories told in the concluding part of My Family, the Holocaust and Me (BBC One) were harrowing. The descendants of Holocaust survivors traced the stories that shaped their families, many of them so traumatic that they had never been discussed. But as one of the contributors said: “We must tell the story so it…
Tom Palmer’s powerful and moving novel After The War is inspired by the true-life story of The Boys – 300 Jewish refugee orphans, who were brought over to Britain at the end of the Second World War to begin a new life in the Lake District.
“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” argued German philosopher Theodor W Adorno. He may have thought the same of painting, yet that is the task Marie Paneth set a group of young Holocaust survivors in her care.
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