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Monika Salzer speaks at a rally with fellow members of the Omas Gegen Rechts group, or Grandmas Against the Right, which she co-founded in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Omas Gegen Rechts)
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In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far right

headshot of Joe Baur by Joe Baur and JTA January 5, 2022

Neo-Nazis in Germany and Austria have a formidable new foe: grandmothers. The rise in right-wing antisemitism in those German-speaking countries, along with years of mounting anti-immigrant sentiment pushed by some […]

A man takes a picture at the Shoah Name Wall Memorial in Vienna, Austria on Nov. 9, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Hherbert Neubauer-APA-AFP via Getty Images)
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On Kristallnacht anniversary, Austrian government unveils memorial wall with 64,440 names

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 9, 2021November 9, 2021
Eddie Jaku shows the concentration camp number tattoo on his left arm, July 2, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Louise Kennerley-The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)
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Holocaust survivor who called himself ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’ dies at 101

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA October 13, 2021
Policemen in central Vienna, where dozens of shots were fired on Nov. 2, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Joe Klamar-AFP via Getty Images)
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Four dead, 22 injured after shooting in Vienna near multiple synagogues

by JTA November 2, 2020November 3, 2020
Clockwise, from top left: Daniel Gros, a Jewish attorney in Vienna advising Jews on how to apply for Austrian citizenship; and Elana Dunn-Rennert, Paul Burg and Caroline Wellbery, who are all applying. (JTA/Courtesy Gros, Dunn-Rennert, Burg and Wellbery)
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‘This will completely change Jewish life in Austria’: Thousands of Jews around the world expected to apply for Austrian citizenship through new rules

by Toby Axelrod and JTA September 1, 2020September 1, 2020
Sophie Weinzimmer (third from left) with her family in a Displaced Persons camp for Holocaust survivors in Steyr, Austria, March 1949
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Saratoga woman visits Austrian DP camp where she was born

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat July 9, 2019July 10, 2019

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