The point was made by several speakers that there cannot be memory without knowledge, and that lack of knowledge leads to ...

Jewish director Erwin Simsensohn recently put on an opera about the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. He tells DW ...

Mrs. Friedländer was not the last living survivor but was the most prominent in Germany, said Jacob Eder, a scholar of Holocaust memory at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin, adding that ...

When she was asked to spy for the French army, Marthe Cohn recalled decades later, she didn’t hesitate before saying yes.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier held an emotional memorial ceremony at Berlin’s ...

Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer, 103, died on Friday, the day she was due to receive the Order of Merit of the Republic of Germany.

EUROPE AFFAIRS: The political climate in Germany is shifting as the AfD rises in power, raising concerns about the future of Holocaust memory and the country’s commitment to Shoah remembrance.

Born and raised in Berlin, Friedlaender's family were among the hundreds of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz over the course of World War II. Friedlander herself was interned at the ...