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Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized in latest antisemitic vandalism incident

The memorial for the 32,000 deported Jews has faced repeated vandalism since its creation, with it being splashed with white paint and covered in parcel tape in August.

A Stolperstein or a 'stumbling stone' with the words, "here lived Margot Bendheim, born 1921, deported 1944 - Theresienstadt, survived" engraved in memory of Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender, is embedded in front of the house where she once lived, after she died on May 9 at the age of 103.
People attend a commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized, covered in green graffiti, police say

THE FREE University Berlin (Freie Universitaet Berlin) stands at twilight on February 07, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.

Violent assault on Jewish student in Berlin not antisemitic in motive, appeals court rules

Rabbi A. Goldberg of Rabbinical Centre of Europe, German President F.W. Steinmeier, Rabbi Y. Teichtal, Chief Rabbi of Berlin & head of Chabad Berlin, Rabbi K. Ber, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel

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 Berlin TV tower

Holocaust memorials in Buchenwald and Berlin vandalized in same week

Near Buchenwald, the perpetrators on Tuesday sawed off the tops of seven trees planted along a road that used to lead to the camp.

 Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany.

German police do push-ups on Holocaust monument

Accessible to the public, visitors are asked to refrain from performing offensive behaviors at the memorial • acts of indecency have been reported in the past

THE MASSIVE cemetery-like Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.

Jewish man punched in Berlin, one of 3 antisemitic attacks reported there

In Ukraine, meanwhile, a swastika was spray-painted on a synagogue, while in Spain, white supremacist and anti-Israel symbols were spray-painted on the gate of a Jewish cemetery

A STAR of David on a synagogue.

Austrian Jewish leader apologizes: Wrongly administered COVID vaccines

The head of Austria’s Jewish community has apologized for COVID-19 vaccine doses that were administered to community members, including himself, who were not meant to receive them.

Scientists develop a vaccine against the coronavirus disease in Saint Petersburg

Man assaulted in Berlin by attacker who shouted antisemitic insults

The victim, 33, was attacked in front of his apartment building by another man whom police said was trying to visit a woman who lived in the same building.

Display by Israel's Embassy in Berlin Light Festival, 2020

Belgium bans kosher slaughter, paving way for possible EU ban

Stunning an animal before ritual slaughtering is contrary to Kosher and Halal practices.

A man performs the ancient Jewish ritual of kaparot

Rabbi who served Germany’s Jews after fall of the Berlin Wall, dies at 93

Many non-Jewish Germans first encountered Wolff in Wauer’s 2011 film about Berlin’s historic Weissensee Jewish Cemetery, “In Heaven Underground.”

Rabbi William Wolff became a movie star in old age in documentary films.

Anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall poses fresh challenges for German Jews

Although the fall of communism liberated Jewry, the striving for freedom continues

A SECTION of the Berlin Wall in Berlin. It was one of the iconic symbols of the Cold War

300 Jewish scholars sign letter for Fmr. Berlin Jewish Museum director

Schaefer resigned his position last week, a year ahead of his scheduled departure.

The Jewish museum in Berlin