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April 28, 2023, 4:47 pm

Jerry Springer: the Jewish life and times of a cultural icon

The Jewish cultural icon, whose family fled from Germany to England during the Holocaust, died peacefully at his home in Chicago after a brief illness

By Michelle Rosenberg

June 17, 2022, 9:16 am

Matt Lucas learns his cousin lived with the Franks and is even named in Anne’s diary

Imagine discovering a member of your family had lived with the Frank family. That was one of many things the comedian discovered on Who Do you Think You Are last night

By Louisa Walters

April 22, 2022, 10:11 am

Gwyneth Paltrow funds her Jewish ancestors’ cemetery in Poland

The informational signboard will recount the history of the Jewish community in Nowogród.

By JTA

Football pundit and former footballer Alex Scott, pictured at Sandys Row Synagogue - the oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in London - discovers her Jewish roots in the new series of Who Do You Think You Are?

October 26, 2021, 3:59 pm

Alex Scott ‘proud’ of her Cable Street relative in Who Do You Think You Are?

The 37-year-old presenter discovers how her Jewish great-grandfather Philip Gittleson was caught up in the events of 4 October 1936

By Francine Wolfisz

September 14, 2021, 5:05 pm

Alex Scott taps into Jewish roots for BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are?

Football pundit and former England player discovers Jewish ancestry on her mother’s side and learns that her great-grandfather faced down fascism in London’s East End in 1936

By Francine Wolfisz

Robert Rinder in BBC documentary My Family, The Holocaust and Me

November 5, 2020, 1:26 pm

Robert Rinder traces ‘unimaginable trauma’ of Holocaust survivors for BBC series

Two-part documentary My Family, The Holocaust And Me, explores the impact of the Shoah on second and third generations

By Francine Wolfisz

January 29, 2020, 5:00 pm

Trauma handed down from parent to child

Sandy Rashty explores the transgenerational impact of the Nazi genocide on descendants of survivors

By Sandy Rashty

Barrister and television personality Robert Rinder

January 27, 2020, 9:18 am

OPINION – Rob Rinder: We must tell our children and our children’s children

Robert Rinder reflects on his grandfather’s experience and explores the impact of the Holocaust on the second and third generations in his upcoming two-part documentary

By Robert Rinder

Mark Wright discovers he has Jewish roots that take him on a journey from the East End to Spain, via the Netherlands in Who Do You Think You Are? Credit:Wall to Wall Media Ltd/Stephen Perry

September 3, 2019, 11:16 am

Mark Wright: ‘My Jewish ancestor was tortured in the Spanish Inquisition’

The Only Way Is Essex star discovers a lineage stretching back more than 300 years in BBC1's Who Do You Think You Are?

By Francine Wolfisz

July 18, 2019, 9:52 am

Daniel Radcliffe: Did antisemitism play a role in great-grandfather’s suicide?

Harry Potter star delves into family background for BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are?

By Francine Wolfisz

May 13, 2019, 10:26 am

Baftas: Judge Rinder honours survivors after accepting gong for Shoah doc

TV judge accepted the prestigious gong for Who Do You Think You Are? after exploring the lives of his maternal grandfather and great-grandfather on the genealogy show last year.

By Jewish News Reporter

Judge Rinder being interviewed by Samantha Simmonds at JW3. (C) Blake Ezra Photography 2018

December 5, 2018, 4:12 pm

Robert Rinder to present BBC series on the Holocaust

TV barrister revealed during this week’s JW3 dinner that he'll front the three new programmes following his appearance on Who Do You Think You Are?

By Justin Cohen

Robert Rinder was overwhelmed to meet Sir Ben Helfgott at Schlieben, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where his grandfather was a forced labourer during the Second World War

August 14, 2018, 10:46 am

Watch: Judge Rinder moved to tears by Ben Helfgott in Who Do You Think You Are?

The pair were united at Schlieben, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where TV star's grandfather endured forced labour

By Francine Wolfisz

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August 9, 2018, 11:57 am

Judge Rinder: ‘Who Do You Think You Are was a total gift to my family’

Television star discovers his grandfather Morris Malenicky lost seven relatives in the Holocaust

By Francine Wolfisz

Natasha Kaplinsky listens to survivor Gena Turgel.

February 6, 2018, 3:03 pm

OPINION – Natasha Kaplinsky: Help me save crumbling last witness to history

Renowned British broadcaster reflects on work with The Foundation for Jewish Heritage to try to help preserve the Great Synagogue of Slonim

By Natasha Kaplinsky

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