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Germany

(From left) Shoshana Fendel, Gabie Berliner Yossi Fendel and Lord Mayor of Hanover Belit Onay sign a document formally donating a family cabinet (right, behind Onay) stolen by the Nazis back to the city of Hanover to be used for educational purposes.
(Photo/Courtesy City of Hanover)
Posted inNews

Bay Area family visits Germany to reclaim, then donate, Nazi-looted heirloom

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 21, 2022
The Last Supper, which some believe was a Passover meal, as seen in the current iteration of the Oberammergau Passion Play. (Photo/Courtesy Oberammergau Passion Play 2022)
Posted inOpinion

The Oberammergau Passion Play once stoked antisemitism. A revised version strives to be less inflammatory

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman June 17, 2022June 23, 2022
a picture of a computer screen shows a bar that says "Hate Speech" and a mouse hovering a button that says "Toxizität Berechnen"
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German government reports startling 29% increase in antisemitic crimes

by Toby Axelrod and JTA June 10, 2022
Rabbi Walter Homolka, rector of the Abraham Geiger College, in the Liberal Jewish community’s synagogue in Hanover, Germany in December 2016. (Photo/JTA-Julian Stratenschulte-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Institutions unravel amid mounting sexual harassment scandal in German liberal Judaism

by Toby Axelrod and JTA May 25, 2022May 25, 2022
Nigerian students Funke Oluwatosin, left, and Deborah Ologbenla, right, pose for photos in Hillel sweatshirts. (Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz)
Posted inWorld

From Nigeria to Kyiv to a Hillel in Berlin: The long, strange journey of 2 students fleeing the Ukraine war

headshot of Joe Baur by Joe Baur and JTA May 2, 2022
A man carries a child after refugees from the Ukraine arrive at the main train station in Berlin, March 1, 2022. in Berlin, Germany. (Photo/JTA-Hannibal Hanschke-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Germany loosens asylum requirements for Ukrainian Jews amid ongoing war with Russia

by Toby Axelrod and JTA March 10, 2022
Former prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at an International Holocaust Remembrance day event at the former camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Damian Klamka-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Record Claims Conference payout to help Bay Area Holocaust survivors

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 2, 2022March 2, 2022
A woman watches Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO's director-general, speak during an online commemoration on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Dublin, Jan. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Artur Widak-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inEducation

German teens and young adults are interested in learning about the Holocaust — but they want new ways to do so

by Toby Axelrod and JTA February 2, 2022
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)
Posted inWorld

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
Memorial stolperstiene, or "stumbling blocks," are laid in front of a formerly Jewish home in Görlitz. (Photo/Courtesy Lauren Leiderman)
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Return to Görlitz: survivors’ descendants lay memorial stones in Germany

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2021December 29, 2021

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