57 h. ago Holocaust survivor breaks down as they say arriving at Bergen

Holocaust survivor Renee Salt broke down in tears during an emotional interview on Tuesday's This Morning as she recalled the harrowing moment she arrived at Bergen-Belsen.

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57 h. ago Holocaust survivor shares chilling 'walking skeleton' memories of Bergen

This Morning viewers were left in tears as Holocaust survivor Renee Salt recalled the harrowing moments she arrived at Bergen-Belsen.

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68 h. ago Anne Frank Holocaust camp survivor, 94, warns we must never repeat the evil failures of the past

Brave Mala Tribich, 94, re-lives the horrors of the nightmarish Bergen-Belsen camp on the anniversary of its liberation by British troops.

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3 w. ago Lonely Spring Breaker arrives to empty beach party after crackdown and massive brawl

One hapless teen was greeted with the sight of a 'disappointing' empty beach after severe police clampdowns on Spring Break revelry cut the celebrations short in Florida

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3 w. ago Holocaust survivor, 87, questioned by police after laying flowers at Trafalgar Square during Gaza protest

Stephen Kapos was among nine people called in over 18 January pro-Palestine protest

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3 w. ago ‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother

Charlotte Church has lived her life in the full glare of publicity, rising from child star to tabloid target. Now, happier and more free than ever, she’s found her feet – and her voice – at her healing retreat in the Welsh valleysWhen Charlotte Church arrives, she starts to cry. “I break down,” she says, “every time I reach here. It’s the first thing I do when I set foot on this soil.” It’s a two-hour drive from her home in Barry to The Dreaming, the retreat centre she opened in 2023, a pilgrimage across Bannau Brycheiniog and into the myth-steeped hills of the Elan Valley in Powys, central Wales. “Two to three weeks,” she’s explaining, icy ground crunching underfoot, “is the longest I can stay away before I start clucking. As I get closer, I feel myself relaxing, a calm coming over me, my nervous system resetting.” That bodily response, she’s sure, is physiological. Tears stream. “This land holds me like nothing else. It feels like coming home; I’m enveloped here.”It’s early Januar...

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3 w. ago What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more

I asked some well-known names for their thoughts on the ultimate existential question. Their answers were fascinating, funny – and could help us frame our days on EarthIn September 2015, I was unemployed, heartbroken and living alone in my dead grandad’s caravan, wondering what the meaning of life was. Where was I going to find happiness, or purpose, or meaning? What was the point to all of this?Like any millennial, I turned to Google for the answers. I trawled through essays, newspaper articles, countless YouTube videos, various dictionary definitions and numerous references to the number 42, before I discovered an intriguing project carried out by the philosopher Will Durant during the 1930s. Durant had written to Ivy League presidents, Nobel prize winners, psychologists, novelists, professors, poets, scientists, artists and athletes to ask for their take on the meaning of life. His findings were collated in the book On the Meaning of Life, published in 1932. Continue reading...

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