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This week marked a milestone in the post-Holocaust restoration of Europe’s Jewish community: Poland hosted its largest gathering of rabbis since World War II. About 150 rabbis from across Europe met in Poland for a three-day meeting of The Conference of European Rabbis from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. The bi-annual meeting focused on Jewish [...]  Seventy years ago last week, 1,000 German Jews who had once considered Germany home, were rounded up on Track 17 of the Grunewald station in Berlin and loaded onto a train bound for the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. This was the beginning in earnest of the Nazis’ Final Solution to the “Jewish problem.” As reported in [...] Competing in the Olympics is the highest aspiration for most athletes, but for Gretel Bergmann, that dream turned into a nightmare. The film “Berlin 36,” which opens today in New York, tells the tale of Bergmann, a Jewish woman who was one of the top high-jumpers in Germany in the 1930s. But in 1934, the [...] The open-air exhibition in the trench alongside the excavated segments of cellar wall on Niederkirchnerstraße (formerly Prinz-Albrecht-Straße). On a trip to Berlin for a meeting with the Federal Archives of Germany (Bundesarchiv), Dr. Wesley Fisher, Director of Research at the Claims Conference, had an opportunity to visit the Topography of Terror Documentation Center. It [...] Sisters Ruth (left) and Toni (right) Usherenko, both born in Berlin. On May 19, 1943 the Nazis declared Berlin to be Judenfrei, free of Jews. Ten years earlier, the June 1933 census numbered the Jewish population of Berlin at 160,000, accounting for 32 percent of German Jewry. Emigration rose after the Nuremberg Laws were [...] |
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