In the two years that Curt Bloch spent hiding from the Nazis in the attic of a house in the Netherlands, he launched a weekly satirical magazine filled with photomontages and poems about his own ...

With his wife and infant sons, he took refuge in unlikely places, including an opera house, an abandoned car and a subway station converted to a bunker. By Richard Sandomir The people who hid Curt ...

The Jewish Museum in Berlin (via Domonic Simpson’s Flickrstream) Peter Schäfer, the director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, resigned from his post on Friday, June 14, after the museum faced criticism from ...

They were philosophers, bankers and musicians: The Jewish Mendelssohn family left distinctive marks on Germany’s intellectual, economic and cultural life as early as the 18th century. However, the ...

A few weeks ago, the Jewish Museum in Berlin sacked Udi Raz, one of its guides, for speaking the truth about the state of Israel and calling it an apartheid state during guided tours. The WSWS has ...

Peter Schäfer, former director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum. Photo by Jule Roehr (courtesy the Jewish Museum Berlin) A group of 50 Talmud scholars have signed a letter in support of Peter Schäfer, former ...

An important painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, sold under duress by Jewish collector and dealer Victor Wallerstein during World War II, can stay in its current home, Berlin’s Brücke Museum, after a ...

The 1943 protest commemorated by the monument was led by non-Jewish women, most of them married to Jewish men who were detained in a building that had formerly functioned as the Jewish Welfare ...