The New York Times

Jewish Museum Berlin

With his wife and infant sons, he took refuge in unlikely places, including an opera house, an abandoned car and a subway station converted to a bunker. By Richard Sandomir The people who hid Curt ...
The Forward

Princeton Professor Peter Schafer Named Head of Jewish Museum Berlin

Berlin’s Jewish museum has selected as its new leader a non-Jewish scholar of Jewish studies. Peter Schafer, a German academic who had previously led Princeton University‘s Judaic studies program, ...
Sun Sentinel

Private museum showcasing Jewish history in Berlin at risk

They were philosophers, bankers and musicians: The Jewish Mendelssohn family left distinctive marks on Germany’s intellectual, economic and cultural life as early as the 18th century. However, the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A timely New York exhibition immerses listeners in voices from the Holocaust

At New York Historical, rare, unheard recordings collected by Claude Lanzmann for his monumental film "Shoah" feature ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Daniel Libeskind: Architect at Ground Zero

Daniel Libeskind, the high-spirited American architect who in early February was selected as a finalist in the much publicized competition to design the site of the WorldTradeCenter, was barely known ...
The Times of Israel on MSN

Berlin art exhibit in former Nazi bunker explores Jewish experience after October 7

Works by 'Maus' cartoonist Art Spiegelman, ousted Putin apparatchik-turned-gallerist Marat Gelman and others take aim at labels pushed on Jews in last two years The post Berlin art exhibit in former ...
WUNC

Remembering Walter Frankenstein, a Jewish man who lived in Berlin throughout WWII

During World War II, thousands of Jews evaded the Nazis in Berlin, moving from place to place and taking refuge wherever they could. They called themselves U-boats, a reference to the German naval ...
The Jewish Exponent

Berlin Holocaust Memorial Vandalized with Antisemitic Graffiti

A Berlin Holocaust memorial was vandalized with pro-Palestinian and antisemitic graffiti, local police said Thursday. The graffiti, sprayed across the sandstone monument, said “Jews are committing ...