Albrecht Weinberg, who survived Nazi concentration camps as a young boy, didn't return to Germany where he was born until he was 80 years old. He quietly passed away Tuesday.
Today marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. From intimate stumbling stones to commemorative events in parliament, here's how the atrocities of the Holocaust are remembered in Germany today.
As the world remembers Auschwitz, the German far right has pushed back against the country's tradition of Holocaust remembrance, now with backing from US tech billionaire Elon Musk.
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27th, we look at how the world gradually discovered the horror of the concentration and extermination camps set up by Nazi Germany across Europe.
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, members of the last generation of Nazi concentration camp survivors are speaking out to share their stories and fears about the future.
The German parliament on Friday dedicated its annual Holocaust commemorations for the first time to people killed for their sexual or gender identity, and acknowledged decades of post-war persecution.
German Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, a key witness in recent trials of alleged Nazi war criminals, has died aged 101, the International Auschwitz Committee (IAC) told AFP on Monday.
The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a non-binding resolution calling on all member states to fight against Holocaust denial and anti Semitism, especially on social media.
Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch on
Wednesday called for a stronger defence of the country's "fragile" democracy
and issued a searing rebuke to the far right: "We will fight for our Germany".
Barbara Brix admired her father, a doctor who passed on his love of history and literature. Until she learned years after his passing that he had been part of a Nazi death squad.
German car-parts maker Continental
revealed Thursday that it played a key role in the Nazi war effort and used
thousands of slave labourers during World War II.
A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp
guard was handed a suspended sentence of two years in prison on Thursday as a
court in Hamburg found him guilty of complicity in WWII atrocities.
A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp
guard apologised to Holocaust victims at a Hamburg court on Monday, ahead of
the verdict in the high-profile trial over his complicity in the World War II
atrocities.
A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp
guard has been charged with war crimes during the Holocaust in what could be
one of the last cases of its kind, a German court said Monday.
German prosecutors on Monday demanded three
years in jail for a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who they said was "without a doubt" complicit in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II.
The prosecution's closing arguments will be heard on Monday in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II.
Germany has doubled its share of a fund to preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to €120 million euros, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas pledged on Sunday to fight Holocaust denial as a trio of former Nazi concentration camps mark the 75th anniversary of their liberation in the shadow of the
coronavirus pandemic.
Germany held a minute's silence on Wednesday
to mark 75 years since the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp was
liberated, after planned commemorations were cancelled because of the
coronavirus pandemic.
From swastikas sprayed on the walls to Hitler salute selfies, far-right provocations are a growing problem at the sites of former Nazi concentration camps in Germany.
With the coronavirus pandemic wiping clean most public events in Germany, the memorial at the Buchenwald former concentration camp marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation on Saturday in a new way.
The "evil spirits" of hatred and anti-Semitism are re-emerging, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned Wednesday in a Berlin speech marking 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.
Seventy-five years after the
liberation of Auschwitz, a dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors gathered at the former German Nazi death camp on Monday to honour its more than 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims and to share their alarm over rising anti-semitism.
Unwanted visits from neo-Nazis are becoming an increasing problem for the memorial centre at the former World War II concentration camp at Buchenwald in eastern Germany, museum director Volkhard Knigge said on Thursday.
