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Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Toby Axelrod (JTA)
On-screen odd couple Fry and Dunham
June 17, 2024, 5:21 pm
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz
Tragicomedy Treasure, in UK cinemas now, is a story about how a legacy of violence can affect anybody
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Nazis and their Dutch collaborators used the GVB public tram system to deport Dutch Jews during the Holocaust. (Courtesy Willy Lindwer)
March 11, 2024, 9:50 am
Dutch tram company that carried Anne Frank to her doom sought compensation after the war
Most of the Jews forced onto the trams did not survive: More than 100,000 Dutch Jews — three-quarters of the country’s Jewish population — were murdered in the Holocaust.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Actress Helen Mirren and Guy Nattiv, film director and screenwriter, attend the Cinema for Peace Gala Berlin, Feb. 19, 2024. (Fabian Sommer/Picture alliance via Getty Images)
February 26, 2024, 3:55 pm
‘Golda,’ biopic about Israeli leader at war, wins top prize from Cinema for Peace Foundation
Nattiv and Mirren attended the awards ceremony in Berlin where their prize was presented by 102-year-old Margot Friedlander, one of the oldest remaining Holocaust survivors.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
The grand mufti of Bosnia, Husein ef. Kavazović, shakes hands with Menachem Rosensaft, who was born in a displaced persons camp, at a ceremony marking the launch of a new peace initiative in Srebrenica, Bosnia, Jan. 28, 2024. (Courtesy Srebrenica Memorial Center)
February 1, 2024, 9:25 am
Holocaust and Srebrenica survivors launch Jewish-Muslim effort to prevent genocides
The event took place at the Srebrenica Memorial Center, a museum marking the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in the summer of 1995.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
December 12, 2023, 8:54 am
Berlin drops Mahmoud Abbas’ Holocaust hate speech case due to diplomatic immunity
At issue was Abbas’ comments made during a press conference with German Chancellor in which he accused Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” since its war for independence in 1948.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
An aerial view of the palace in Köthen, Germany. (Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Henrik Bollmann/Wikimedia Commons)
September 27, 2023, 8:57 am
Study shows right-wing extremist attitudes on the rise in Germany
A new survey indicates that 8% of people in Germany have a right-wing extremist worldview, up from 2-3% in previous years.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
19 September 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Jamel: Sven Krüger (l), a right-wing extremist known throughout Germany, is accompanied by a police officer during a search operation on his property. Federal Interior Minister Faeser has banned the right-wing extremist association "Hammerskins Germany" as well as its regional offshoots and the sub-organization "Crew 38". According to the ministry, police task forces searched the homes of 28 suspected members of the association in ten German states in the early morning. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images)
September 21, 2023, 10:51 am
Germany bans neo-Nazi group to send ‘signal against racism and antisemitism’
The Hammerskins, a local spinoff of a group founded in the United States in the late 1980s, are accused of promoting criminal activities and of opposing the German constitution.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
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September 19, 2023, 2:50 pm
Medieval German synagogue added to UNESCO World Heritage list
Erfurt’s Old Synagogue dates back to the 1090s, when its first stones were laid.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Windows at the Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony, in the town of Celle, Germany, were found vandalized, Aug. 15, 2023. (Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony)
August 17, 2023, 12:29 pm
Windows shattered at headquarters of Holocaust memorial site foundation in Germany
The Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony oversees the memorials at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the Wolfenbüttel Prison, a major Nazi execution site.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Avi Berg helps a customer in his Cafe Dodo in Berlin. (Courtesy of Berg)
July 27, 2023, 5:39 pm
Israeli expat boots Israeli ambassador from his Berlin cafe
The owner of Café Dodo told Ambassador Prosor he was “not welcome in my café” because he “represents Israel, and since he implements an invalid and manipulative policy, which claims that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.”
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
A view of the “Munich Displaced: The Surviving Remnant" exhibit at Munich’s Jewish Museum. (Daniel Schvarcz)
July 13, 2023, 12:46 pm
Landmark exhibits shed light on life in German displaced person camps after Holocaust
Twin exhibits run through January 2024 and tell the stories of tens of thousands of displaced persons — Jewish and non-Jewish — in post-war German limbo.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Robert Sesselmann, in white, attends an AfD election event in Sonneberg, eastern Germany, June 25, 2023. (Ferdinand Merzbach/News5/AFP via Getty Images)
June 27, 2023, 9:14 am
Germany’s far-right AfD party scores first district victory, alarming Jewish leaders
Launched in 2013 on an anti-immigrant, anti-European Union, ultra-nationalist platform, the AfD won its first seats in the national parliament in 2017.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Historian and attorney Menachem Rosensaft speaks at a conference on Bulgaria and the Holocaust, May 23, 2023. (Travis Wade)
June 2, 2023, 4:26 pm
Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel condemned for skipping Holocaust history conference
The embassy said Rumiana Bachvarova received “a last-minute invitation ”and “decided it was good for the conversation to remain at a historical level, without political presence.”
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder, center, receives an award from the Conference of European Rabbis in Munich, May 9, 2023. On right is CER President Pinchas Goldschmidt and on left is Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish Community of Munich and upper Bavaria. (Marc Müller/CER)
May 12, 2023, 11:57 am
Brexit’s fault: European rabbinical group moves HQ from London to Munich
Conference of European Rabbis President Pinchas Goldschmidt confirms the UK's EU exit was a leading factor in the move.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Footage of the rally was captured by an NGO and uploaded to YouTube on April 9, 2023. (democ./Screenshot from YouTube)
April 12, 2023, 9:01 am
‘Death to the Jews’ chants heard at Berlin pro-Palestinian rally
Hundreds of people showed up in Berlin at a rally organised in response to Israeli police clashes with Palestinians at the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem last week.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
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