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.

We need to send a clear message that we will never allow the passage of time to excuse or forgive the crimes of the Holocaust ...

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

German Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender, who has died at the age of 103, won plaudits at home and abroad for her ...

Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer ... Friedländer stood out for her work and commitment to historical memory in German society, which, as a witness to Nazi crimes, helped to recall the ...

Margot Friedlander, a Holocaust survivor who grew ... “This is a profound loss for the Jewish people, for Germany, and for all those who believe in memory and moral responsibility.” ...

Friedländer was born and raised in Berlin and hid there after the Nazis rose to power and began deporting and murdering Jews. She was apprehended in April 1944 and sent to the Theresienstadt ...