Kirsten Grieshaber

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal poses on the balcony of the curved building of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

June 23, 2023, 11:14 am

Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin

Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Politicians of Austria's Social Democratic Party (SPOe) and Greens carry a banner with "Regenbogenparade" (Pride Parade) at Ringstrasse in Vienna, Austria, on June 17, 2023. (Alex HALADA/AFP)

June 18, 2023, 4:04 pm

Austria claims to foil attack by alleged IS sympathizers on Vienna Pride Parade

Three suspects radicalized online nabbed by authorities before Saturday’s festivities, which attracted around 300,000 people

By Kirsten Grieshaber

This undated image, provided by the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, Germany, shows the 1907 painting 'The Colorful Life' by Russian artist Kandinsky. (Lenbachhaus Museum via AP)

June 14, 2023, 9:40 am

German commission backs restoring painting owned by Bavarian bank to Jewish heirs

Kandinsky’s ‘The Colorful Life’ was loaned by Lewenstein family to Stedelijk Museum, but put up for auction shortly after Nazi occupation of Netherlands

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Matthias Weniger, curator of the Bavarian National Museum, lifts one of 111 silver objects, stolen by the Nazis from Jews during the Third Reich, in Munich, Germany, June 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

June 13, 2023, 2:57 pm

Applying stolen silver sleuth skills, German curator returns Nazi-looted heirlooms

Matthias Weniger has made it his mission to give back silver objects that ‘are often the only material things that remain from an existence wiped out in the Holocaust’

By Kirsten Grieshaber

A woman holds a sign as she takes part in a protest against a Roger Waters concert later in the day in the Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

May 28, 2023, 6:16 pm

Jewish, local groups hold memorial, protest at Roger Waters gig in Frankfurt

Rally draws around 400 people, demonstrators read out names of 600 Jews rounded up in city on Kristallnacht, wave Israeli flags, hand out flyers to concert attendees

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Holocaust survivor Assia Gorban, left, and her granddaughter Ruth Gorban pose during an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Michele Tantussi)

April 18, 2023, 6:21 pm

With their children and grandchildren, Holocaust survivors tell their stories online

More than 100 survivors are taking part in a digital campaign led by the Claims Conference to illustrate the importance of passing on their testimonies to younger family members

By Kirsten Grieshaber

A man looks to a painting '4900 Colours (excerpt)' in a new exhibition with art works of German artist Gerhard Richter at the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, March 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

March 31, 2023, 7:09 pm

Berlin museum displays works by artist who grapples with Germany’s Nazi past

Basis of Gerhard Richter paintings are 4 abstract photos secretly taken in 1944 by Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, who risked their lives doing so

By Kirsten Grieshaber

A boy dances to celebrate Purim at a party in a hotel in Berlin, Germany, March 7, 2023. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

March 8, 2023, 6:35 am

Ukrainian refugees celebrate Purim in Berlin, but fears of war linger

Hundreds attend Chabad party in German capital, including dozens of orphans from Odesa and young students, but some remain fearful for relatives back home

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Forensics staff on duty at a platform by a regional train, with police officers standing opposite, following a deadly stabbing, at Brokstedt station in Brockstedt, Germany, January 25, 2023. (Jonas Walzberg/dpa via AP)

January 25, 2023, 10:18 pm

2 killed, Palestinian man arrested in stabbing spree on German train

Police spokesperson says 7 others injured in attack on regional train from Kiel to Hamburg; attacker also wounded, taken to hospital

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, on the platform left, and Rabbi Segal Shmoel, on the platform right, inspect a giant Hanukkah Menorah, set up by the Jewish Chabad Educational Center ahead of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday, in front of the Brandenburg Gate at the Pariser Platz in central Berlin, Germany, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

December 20, 2022, 2:55 pm

Holocaust survivors to celebrate Hanukkah by spreading message of hope worldwide

Virtual event will highlight survivors from across the globe, including some recently evacuated from war-torn Ukraine; ceremony to feature Herzog, Scholtz, Barbra Streisand

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Local resident Juergen Schulz lays down a flower after he polishes so-called 'Stolpersteine' or 'stumbling stones' commemorating people deported and killed by the Nazis in front of his house in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2021 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

November 9, 2022, 8:20 am

Holocaust survivors warn of antisemitism, hate speech on Kristallnacht anniversay

On 84th anniversary of ‘Night of Broken Glass,’ Claims Conference relaunches campaign to educate on role antisemitic language played in Holocaust

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Israeli Olympic race walker Shaul Ladany poses for a photo at the entrance of the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, Germany, Sept. 3, 2022. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

September 4, 2022, 10:42 am

Survivor of Holocaust and Munich Olympic attack visits Germany for memorial event

Shaul Ladany was able to escape before Palestinian terror group captured him in 1972 massacre; shows family where he was previously held at Bergen-Belsen camp

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Taisiia Mokrozub, a Ukrainian refugee from Zaporizhzhia, holds her son Hordii during an interview with The Associated Press in a flat in Pruszkow, Poland, August 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

August 22, 2022, 12:04 pm

‘Time stopped’: Ukrainians who fled invasion long for home as war nears 6-month mark

Many who left their homes after Russia invaded face sad realization they will not return soon, having initially believed the fighting would end quickly

By Vanessa Gera and Kirsten Grieshaber

German sharpshooters from the police force take position atop the building facing the Israeli delegation residence, to try and free the hostages held by the Arab terrorists during the Munich Olympics, Sept. 5, 1972. (AP Photo)

July 27, 2022, 6:32 pm

Families of 1972 Olympic attack victims reject ‘insulting’ German compensation offer

Berlin willing to pay further undisclosed damages, but spokesperson for ‘disappointed’ victims’ families says they won’t attend 50th anniversary memorial unless amount increases

By Kirsten Grieshaber and Ilan Ben Zion

Firefighters throw water on fire in the Ceske Svycarsko (Czech Switzerland) National Park, above the village Hrensko, Czech Republic, Monday July 25, 2022. The fire broke out on Sunday and started spreading on Monday as the wind rose. (Hajek Vojtech/CTK via AP)

July 26, 2022, 3:11 pm

Firefighters battle German, Czech wildfires as locals are forced to evacuate

Seven firefighters injured in the Elbe-Elster district as hundreds battle wildfires across eastern Germany; Czech officials visit border area, say situation ‘very serious’

By Karel Janicek and Kirsten Grieshaber