"there should still be room in your heart for a Jewish child whose last moments were filled with unimaginable terror – the same terror his grandparents, and their grandparents, thought they had escaped for ever."

Especially this week there are few places I'd rather be than National Holocaust Museum UK. Today we joined with 17 survivors in celebrating 28 years of a wonderful interfaith space for Holocaust education.

Sending solidarity to friends The Wiener Holocaust Library - one of the very best research centres for Holocaust Studies and which deserves all our support.

5 years ago I was in Jerusalem for a Yad Vashem School seminar and on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice I laid a wreath at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery. It feels like an even more poignant memory this year, and my thoughts continue to be with all my friends at Yad Vashem.

Positive news and a pinch of Jewish humor. Returnees from Gaza have confirmed that historian Alex Danzig, held by #Hamas, is alive, fairly well, and even giving lectures to fellow hostages. Alex’s son in law, this morning on Israeli radio: “Well, at least he now has a captive

Safely arrived in Washington DC and excited to begin my research fellowship at the Mandel Center, US Holocaust Museum. Time to turn my thesis into a book!

Pleased to share my review of Doris L. Bergen's 'Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany' - "sure to become one of the essential texts in understanding the place of the Church, and of Christianity, in the murder of six million Jews": academic.oup.com/hgs/advance-ar…

"the Methodist church was a place where what was high and mighty mixed with the ordinary and the day-to-day..." A beautiful essay, by Robert Colls, on Methodist culture and what its loss would mean not just for us Methodists but for British democracy.

A 'research report' from me in the latest edition of Contemporary Church History Quarterly, discussing my research journey and current work: contemporarychurchhistory.org/2024/03/resear…

David Stewart is a key person in the book I am writing on Christians in the aftermath of the Holocaust. You can read more about his Belsen pamphlet in my EHR article, "The True Physicians Here are the Padres" academic.oup.com/ehr/article/13…

Proud to graduate with my PhD and a new hat 🎓 Thank you to all my teachers over the years, to Shirli Gilbert, my brilliant supervisor, to UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies, a wonderful academic community, and to Wolfson Foundation for a Postgraduate Scholarship which made my research possible.

Very sorry to hear Prof Jürgen Moltmann has died. It was one of the highlights of my time at CCJ to organise this lecture. Just weeks before the first Covid lockdown, a packed room hung on his every word. "Truth is the first act of freedom, however painful the truth may be."

I'm looking forward to delivering the Royal Army Chaplains' Museum Annual Lecture on 15 October at The Royal Military Chapel (The Guards' Chapel) in London. I'll be discussing the unique contribution of army chaplains in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Free tickets can be booked - bit.ly/3Z0E4tR

Two weeks to go... Join us at 1830 on Tuesday 15 October at The Guards’ Chapel for a Lecture by Dr Rob Thompson on Army Chaplaincy at the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Book your FREE ticket now on Eventbrite 👉bit.ly/3Z0E4tR Royal Army Chaplains’ Museum : Faith In The Forces British Army 🇬🇧

Just a week to go until I give the Royal Army Chaplains' Museum Annual Lecture at the Guards Chapel, reflecting on army chaplaincy at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. If you can get to London on 15 October 18.30, free tickets are available here - bit.ly/3Z0E4tR

FINAL CALL❕ Join us tonight, 1830hrs at The Guards’ Chapel, London, for a Lecture by Dr Rob Thompson on Army Chaplaincy at the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen. FREE tickets are still available on Eventbrite 👉bit.ly/3Z0E4tR Royal Army Chaplains’ Museum : Faith In The Forces British Army 🇬🇧