November 9th, 2020 marks the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, an event often considered a seminal point in the persecution of the Jews under National Socialism.
The German government said Monday it has agreed to an one-off payment to survivors of the Kindertransport programme, which brought Jewish children persecuted in Nazi Germany to safety in Britain.
Eight decades after Kristallnacht, The Local's editor Rachel Stern looks back on her own family history and the members who became victims of National Socialism, as well as what calling Germany home means to her today.
Germany has been remembering victims of the Nazi pogrom that heralded the start of the Third Reich's drive to wipe out Jews, at a time when anti-Semitism is resurgent in the West.
More than a thousand people are expected to join a counter-protest on Friday against a far-right extremist march planned to take place on the 80th anniversary of the ‘Kristallnacht’ pogroms.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Israel's Holocaust memorial on Thursday and spoke of her country's "everlasting responsibility" to remember the tragedy and oppose anti-Semitism.
German police launched an investigation Thursday after the addresses of Jewish institutions were published on Facebook by neo-Nazis on the anniversary of the 1938 pogroms against Jews.
Germany on Saturday began marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi pogrom Kristallnacht with solemn ceremonies and
touching and innovative tributes to the victims.
As Germany prepares to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht this weekend, a new book has called into question the event long cited as triggering the Nazi pogrom.
Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans on Saturday to be vigilant to the dangers of anti-Semitism ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom.
Germany's most famous department store will cover its windows with the jagged pattern of broken glass to mark the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom next week.
German Jewish leaders urged the country Monday to remember November 9 as not only the date the Berlin Wall fell, but also as the anniversary of the Nazi <i>Kristallnacht</i> pogrom in 1938.