Tag: Germany
SS guard, 92, to go on trial in Germany for Nazi crimes
A 92-year-old former SS guard charged with helping murder 5,230 prisoners at a Nazi death camp in World War II will go on trial in October, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Bruno Dey, whose full name will...
Nazi-stolen artwork, vases returned to Jewish families in Germany after 80 years
Goods stolen by the Nazis 80 years ago were returned to descendants of their original Jewish owners in two separate cases in Germany.
On Monday in Munich, nine works of art, including paintings, casts and engravings,...
Jewish man donning ‘kipah’ insulted, spat on in Germany
A 25-year-old Jewish man was insulted and spat on in front the Potsdam Central Station by two Syrian nationals, reported German daily Berliner Zeitung on Tuesday.
The student, who told German press agency DPA that he wears...
Negotiations with Germany result in increased welfare for Holocaust survivors, payment for surviving spouse
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (also known as the Claims Conference) announced on Monday the results of the organization’s negotiations this year with the German government on behalf of Jewish Holocaust...
Report: Trade between Iran and Germany collapses under US sanctions
Trade between Iran and Germany has collapsed due to U.S. sanctions against Tehran, according to data published by Funke newspapers, Germany’s third largest newspaper and magazine publisher.
“Data from the German Chamber of Commerce showed that trade...
American Jewish tourist beaten in Berlin
An American Jewish tourist was injured in an anti-Semitic assault in Berlin, police announced on Wednesday.
The unnamed 23-year-old man was in the Steglitz district when three men confronted him, according to a police statement.
“The...
Merkel to Tehran: Uphold the nuclear deal, or there will ‘be consequences’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Iran on Tuesday to uphold the stipulations of the 2015 nuclear deal or else face repercussions.
“We are pushing for Iran to keep to . If that is not the...
Film to be made about Nuremberg Trials 99-year-old prosecutor Ben Ferencz
A film about the head prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials following World War II will be made.
Producers Barry Avrich and Patrice Theroux have acquired the film and television rights to the life story of...
European rabbis take to the streets in Ulm, Germany
BERLIN—Forty rabbis from all over Europe walked the streets of the German city of Ulm on Tuesday, a couple of days after Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, advised Jews against wearing kipot, or skullcaps, in...
The problem in Germany is about more than a ‘kipah’
Who could really be surprised by the story that grabbed the attention of the Jewish world this past weekend? When Felix Klein, Germany’s first Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against...