Holocaust

Germany's small Jewish community does have prominent voices. One of them is Charlotte Knobloch, who was born three months before the fascist Nazi regime came to power in Berlin. She survived the Holocaust thanks to a non-Jewish woman who pretended she was her daughter.

Berlin's Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey awarded Ruth Winkelmann the German Order of Merit today. The Holocaust survivor was honored for her commitment to…

The hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims of Romani origin are not being commemorated much. The Council of Europe and other organizations want this to…

The Berlin Bundestag observed the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on Thursday. Inge Auerbacher, a survivor, told the MPs about her deportation to Theresienstadt.

Exactly eighty years ago, German soldiers murdered 33,771 Jews from Kiev within one and a half days. What took place at Babi Yar was one of the most horrific…

The Eichmann case is directly connected to the darkest chapter in the history of Germany and of mankind. Sixty years ago, the young state of Israel brought the…

In Germany, the Berlin Bundestag commemorated the millions of victims of the Holocaust today. A survivor, Charlotte Knobloch, had a clear message for the extremist right-wing party AfD.

Margot Friedländer grew up in Kreuzberg. Her family was murdered by the Nazis. She survived Theresienstadt and emigrated to the United States. Ten years ago,…

In Germany, the victims of the Nazi concentration camps in Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück were commemorated today, on the 75th anniversary of…

After the big events in Jerusalem and Poland, the Berlin Bundestag commemorated the victims of the Holocaust on Wednesday, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Israel's President Reuven Rivlin and his German colleague Frank-Walter Steinmeier took part.