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Einstein while at Princeton in 1935
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Pacifist Einstein’s letter slamming ‘England’ for appeasement is up for auction
By Toby Porter
Scientist who transformed views of the universe was passionately anti-war – but was frustrated at British lack of military response to Nazism
Einstein while at Princeton in 1935
May 12, 2022, 8:06 pm
Pacifist Einstein’s letter slamming ‘England’ for appeasement is up for auction
Scientist who transformed views of the universe was passionately anti-war - but was frustrated at British lack of military response to Nazism
By Toby Porter
Armed police were deployed to the gate at Frankfurt Airport to prevent 'visibly Jewish' passengers from boarding (Photo: JTA)
May 10, 2022, 9:57 pm
Lufthansa apologises after stopping ‘visibly Jewish’ passengers boarding flight
The German airline was accused of racial profiling when Orthodox Jewish passengers changed planes in Frankfurt
By Michael Daventry
Israel's ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff addresses journalists after touring the exhibition "Auschwitz a Place on this Earth" in Berlin, Jan. 24, 2022. (Tobias Schwartz/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
May 5, 2022, 10:01 am
Israel’s outgoing ambassador to Germany reflects on country’s most dramatic years since World War II
Jeremy Issacharoff refuses to believe that the outbreak of war is the end of diplomacy.
By JTA
2DBH265 Berlin, Germany. 17th Nov, 2020. Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck is sitting on a bench in a courtroom corridor. The 92-year-old is said to have denied the Holocaust in an interview published on the Internet in March 2018. The trial for sedition began today. Credit: Paul Zinken/dpa/Alamy Live News
April 7, 2022, 10:03 am
93-year-old ‘Nazi Grandma’ sentenced to year in jail for Holocaust denial
Infamous Ursula Haverbeck failed in her appeal to overturn guilty verdicts in two separate cases in a German court.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum talks to Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge and his wife Catherine in Berlin in July 2017 (Photo: Reuters)
March 15, 2022, 9:05 am
Holocaust survivor who shared Auschwitz’s horrors with Prince William dies aged 101
Leon Schwarzbaum's entire family was wiped out after they were deported in 1943
By Michael Daventry
Dictionary (Photo by Pisit Heng on Unsplash)
February 18, 2022, 3:17 pm
German dictionary changes definition of ‘Jew’ after complaint from Jewish community
The definition offered by the Duden dictionary, once of the most authoritative German dictionaries, had included a note that the term is sometimes used as a derogatory slur.
By JTA
Ron Prosor
December 29, 2021, 2:29 pm
Israel’s former London envoy Ron Prosor picked for Berlin role
He called his new ambassadorship a ‘closing of a circle’ because his father was born in Germany
By Michael Daventry
December 13, 2021, 2:54 pm
Berlin Jewish hospital evacuates patients after workers unearth war-era bomb
The device was dropped near the hospital by an American bomber during the Second World War
By Michael Daventry
Trainees at the event in Brussels
November 7, 2021, 12:02 pm
Training for young advocates in Brussels
Speakers at the seminar included former Israeli ambassadors and European Commission executives, trainees from Germany, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Albania and Kosovo
October 27, 2021, 10:35 am
Chinese state-run site proposes ‘final solution to the Taiwan question ’
German member of parliament, Frank Müller-Rosentritt, compares the message to Nazi rhetoric
By JTA
(Sefaria/Wikimedia Commons)
October 19, 2021, 12:31 pm
Pioneering German translation of the Talmud from 1935 is now accessible online
Lazarus Goldschmid;s work - which took 40 years - is now accessible through the website Sefaria
By JTA
October 11, 2021, 7:05 pm
Angela Merkel bids farewell with pledge to ‘always’ defend Israel
Outgoing German chancellor pays eighth and final visit of her 16 years in office
By Reuters and Michael Daventry
Survivors and their relatives walk through the gates of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp to attend the 75th anniversary of its liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 6, 2021, 11:11 am
More Holocaust survivors to receive pension payments from Germany
Claims Conference says the £320 monthly sum was symbolic but ‘provides recognition and restores a piece of dignity’
By Michael Daventry
October 1, 2021, 6:34 pm
Nazi war crimes suspect, 96, caught after going on the run before her trial
Court officials say Irmgard Furchner went missing after she left home in a taxi. She is charged with complicity in over 10,000 murders
By Michael Daventry and Reuters
Inside the Stutthof gas chamber
September 30, 2021, 10:26 am
Nazi death camp worker, 96, ‘on the run’ after not showing up in court
Court officials say Irmgard Furchner is missing after she left home in a taxi. She is charged with complicity in nearly 10,000 murders
By Michael Daventry
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