Germans and jews

German gov't appoints Holocaust survivors' granddaughter as first Jewish minister in 100 years

Karin Prien is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and will be the first Jewish Woman to serve at this level and the first Jew since 1922.

|ByYUVAL BARNEA
Designated German Family Minister Karin Prien poses for a picture, on the day of a CDU party conference to formally sign off on a coalition agreement reached with the Social Democrats, in Berlin, Germany April 28, 2025.
Pro-Palestinian poster hanging at the Northwestern University campus

Individuals who post 'From the River to the Sea' to be denied German citizenship

The use of maps in which the territory of the State of Israel is replaced with the colors of the Palestinian flag is also in contravention of the law.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
A new Jewish synagogue and community center in Potsdam, Germany dedicated on July 5, 2024 is home to four congregations.

Four congregations will share a new synagogue in the heart of Potsdam, Germany

The new site means four congregations will no longer have to meet in scattered, improvised quarters — at least not every Shabbat.

|ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA
From right to left: Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, Special Negotiator for the Claims Conference Negotiations Delegation Ambassador Colette Avital

Ensuring 'dignity': Germany increases funds for Holocaust survivors by $114m

The Claims Conference will increase funding for Holocaust survivors by $114 million, enhancing social services and education, ensuring dignified living and combating Holocaust denial.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Classic Holocaust TV miniseries to be shown in Germany

The series, which aired on NBC over four nights in April 1978, won several Emmy and Golden Globe awards and a large audience.

JANUARY 24, 2019ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA
Meryl Streep at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards show in Beverly Hills, California, US, January 8, 2017

Netta to perform for Jewish youth in Germany

Jewrovision invites Jewish performers aged 10 to 19 to perform with theme connected to Jewish heritage.

JANUARY 24, 2019ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Cyprus’s Eleni Foureira and Israel’s Netta react after the Semi-Final 1 for Eurovision Song Contest 2018 at the Altice Arena hall in Lisbon, Portugal, May 8, 2018

German official deletes antisemitic tweet equating Jesus with the Palestinians

The director of Germany’s Near and Middle East department at the foreign ministry deleted a tweet widely criticized as antisemitic because it compared the repression of Jesus to the Palestinians.

JANUARY 4, 2019ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
People walk past the seat of the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany, March 1, 2018.

'Anti-racism' rally in Berlin calls for destruction of Israel

Demonstrators at the march hoisted symbols in support of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

OCTOBER 16, 2018ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Protesters gather to the "#unteilbar", demonstration which aims to "rise up against discrimination, poverty, racism, sexism, disenfranchisement, and nationalism" in Berlin, Germany, October 13, 2018

Nazis took his citizenship as a child, today it will be restored

Fred Amram will be re-naturalized by the German consul general during a ceremony Tuesday at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018ByRYAN FAIRCLOTH/PIONEER PRESS
a holocaust survivor wears a yellow Star of David on his jacket during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem

German governor opens Israel office, refuses to ban Hezbollah, Iran trade

“Israel is the enemy – we carry out resistance,” said in 2017 Hassan Jawad, chairman of the Hezbollah-affiliated imam Mahdi center in the city of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet seen before an interview with Reuters in Berlin, Germany, December 15, 2017.

Jewish National Fund slated to end business with German bank enabling BDS

The JNF was re-established in Germany in 1953, and has its headquarters in Düsseldorf, with offices in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.

JULY 25, 2018ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
BDS activists in Berlin

A story of survival

Vesper Stamper has created a heartrending graphic novel about a teenage girl in the Holocaust

JULY 12, 2018ByMIRIAM KATES LOCK
A DRAWING from ‘What the Night Sings’ depicting the barracks in Bergen-Belsen

'No Jew in Germany': German police assault Israeli professor

It is unclear why the police confused the victim with the suspect.

JULY 12, 2018ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
People wear kippas as they attend a demonstration in front of a Jewish synagogue, to denounce an anti-Semitic attack on a young man wearing a kippa in the capital earlier this month, in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018.

Violent attacks committed against Jews in Berlin and Zurich

Germany has experienced a wave of violent antisemitic attacks, largely committed by German Muslims.

JULY 8, 2018ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
People wear kippas as they attend a demonstration in front of a Jewish synagogue, to denounce an anti-Semitic attack on a young man wearing a kippa in the capital earlier this month, in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018.