This is the Forward’s coverage of the modern nation of Germany, the successor state to Nazi Germany, which perpetrated the Holocaust during World War II.
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Fast Forward Germany Increases Funding For Holocaust Survivors Globally By $88 Million
(JTA) — Germany has agreed to increase its funding for social welfare services for Holocaust survivors by $88 million. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany in its announcement Tuesday said the increase brings global allocations by Germany for 2019 to $564 million. The Claims Conference and representatives of the German government negotiated the…
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Community In Cologne, Archaeologists Unearth The History Of Germany’s Oldest Jewish Community
After attending the New Waves Day 2018 concert in Dusseldorf, Germany last month, I took a train to Köln, or what we know as Cologne. It was the nearest big city, and I wanted to see if the waterfront along the Rhine was as spectacular as Dusseldorf’s. But what I saw there was even grander….
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Assaulted In Berlin For Wearing Star Of David
(JTA) — A Jewish Syrian man was assaulted in a park in Berlin by a group of men and women who he asked for a light for his cigarette after they noticed he was wearing a Star of David. The 10 men and women ages 15 to 21 were detained in the park following the…
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Community What It’s Like To Wear A Yarmulke In Europe
“Traitor!” Each baseball season, I occasionally get this slightly amusing accusation from a few friends and my younger sisters. After all, I have lived in Baltimore for almost 18 years, and I still cannot bring myself to root for the Orioles. Instead, I am a huge Red Sox fan. This is true even though I…
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Fast Forward Jewish Girl’s Rape And Murder Fuels Anti-Migrant Backlash In Germany
(JTA) — In Germany, the case of a young Muslim refugee charged with the rape and murder of a teenage girl has captured media attention and rocked Germany’s Jewish community: The victim, 14-year-old Susanna Feldmann, was Jewish. Missing since May 22, the girl’s body was found June 6 buried in a shallow grave near her…
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Fast Forward Iraqi Man Extradited To Germany After Admitting To Rape, Murder Of Jewish Teen
(JTA) — An Iraqi man was extradited to Germany after admitting to raping and murdering a Jewish German teenage girl. Ali Bashar, 20, a former Iraqi asylum seeker, was scheduled to be interrogated by German investigators on Sunday, after arriving back in Germany from Iraq on Saturday. Bashar fled from Germany after the murder last…
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Fast Forward German Jewish Leader Says U.S. Ambassador ‘Exacerbates’ Far-Right Popularity
(JTA) — A leader of Jews in Germany criticized the United States ambassador to that country for speaking positively about conservative politicians in the continent. Charlotte Knobloch, the head of the Jewish community of Munich and a former leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany wrote in an op-ed for Haaretz published Thursday…
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Fast Forward German-Jewish Girl, 14, Found Raped, Murdered
(JTA) — A Jewish 14-year-old girl in Germany who had been missing since May was found dead. The girl, identified as Susanna F., was found on Wednesday outside Wiesbaden, a city in western Germany. On Thursday, police said that two male asylum-seekers were suspected in her rape and murder. The men, a 20-year-old Iraqi and…
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