A survey on Holocaust awareness in Ireland shows that 9% of adults between 18 and 29 believe the calamity to be a myth. Photograph: Michael Dalder/Reuters Repair and restoration can only be achieved with meaning by embracing the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators. A survey on Holocaust awareness in Ireland shows that 9% of adults between 18 and 29 believe the calamity to be a myth. Photograph: Michael Dalder/Reuters Holocaust Remembrance Day holds special significance for me this...

People in Australia pay their respects to the victims of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Photograph: Audrey Richardson/Getty Images A number of years ago, I visited the old ghetto in Venice, Europe’s oldest, established at the beginning of the 16th century. It still retains the original five synagogues that catered for both Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions that had settled in Venice. Our guide was passionate about his Venetian, Jewish heritage and proud of the multiculturalism of...

Oliver Sears returns to Łodz with an exhibition honouring his murdered grandfather – and confronting Poland’s uneasy memory of its vanished Jewish community The building work is nearing an end at the Melody Lofts, a three-storey redbrick factory that has gained two additional floors and is now flanked by two modern neighbouring buildings. Hoardings outside promise stylish new homes for people who value” space, style and history”. We are in the city of Lodz in central Poland, where, a century...