The Twitter account of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial State Museum is soliciting additional supporters. »Will we reach 1.5 million followers this year? Can you help?” reads a pinned tweet. Because with every additional person who follows the account on the social media platform Twitter, the reach increases. In this way, more people can be informed about … Read more
After her election in the Bundestag, the new Federal Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Ferda Ataman, announced that she would support all people in the country who experience discrimination. “I would like to convince those who have not yet been able to place their trust in me with my work,” she said, referring to the vote in the … Read more
A website that initially seemed harmless went online three weeks ago. It shows a map of the US state of Massachusetts – crossed by lines of different colors that connect a number of points on the map. The play of colors, which looks like a statistical survey, was put online by the equally harmless-sounding »Mapping … Read more
In February 1939 in New York, the fascist American German Bund and its self-proclaimed “Führer” Fritz Julius Kuhn celebrated the high point of the American National Socialist movement. 22,000 supporters had gathered in Madison Square Garden at an event modeled on the Nuremberg party rallies. Violent protests from opponents accompanied the meeting, and 1,700 police … Read more
For his services to Jewish life in Lower Saxony, the chairman of the state association, Michael Fürst, received the state’s Grand Cross of Merit in Hanover on Friday. Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) honored him at a reception of the Jewish state association as an “outstanding representative of Judaism in Lower Saxony”. With the reception … Read more
The Jewish Student Union Germany (JSUD) is organizing a poster campaign on the night of January 26th to 27th, 2022 to commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust. This campaign is carried out in cooperation with the Sinti and Roma Pride initiative. At 15 locations (Berlin, Cologne, Bielefeld, Mannheim, Bremen, Munich, Frankfurt, Neumünster, … Read more
After the liberation of the last Dachau concentration camp with its many branch offices, after the end of the death marches and the desperate efforts to keep the “rest of the rescued”, the “Scherit Hapleita”, physically alive, developed within a very short time and at the same time as a transit commemorated diverse Jewish life … Read more
The chief rabbi of Ukraine, Moshe Reuven Azman, called what happened in the Kiev suburbs of Irpin and Bucha “war crimes”. The Russian army seized the area shortly after invading Ukraine in late February and allegedly murdered hundreds of civilians during the weeks of occupation. Rabbi Azman was there shortly after the Ukrainian army retook … Read more
Several Holocaust survivors from Ukraine have arrived in Germany in the past few days. According to the Claims Conference, four survivors arrived in Frankfurt/Main on Friday. Another 14 survivors were then taken to Würzburg or Munich, among other places. These are sick and infirm people who were transported in ambulances. The synagogue community in Cologne … Read more
Can Jews, Christians and Muslims celebrate communion together? We asked ourselves this on the occasion of the Reformation anniversary at the German Evangelical Church Congress 2017 in Berlin. We are members of the Trimum association. Crossing all religions, we sing against calls and hate chants that confuse their belief or disbelief with “being right at … Read more