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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Wannsee Conference

Thousands gather to demonstrate against right-wing extremism, in Cottbus, Germany, January 21, 2024. (Frank Hammerschmidt/dpa via AP)
January 23, 2024, 6:47 am
German protesters say reported far-right plans to expel foreigners echo Wannsee
Mass rallies held in Germany against right-wing extremism after report says leaders of AfD party held conference to discuss ‘remigration”
By Toby Axelrod
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on October 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 22, 2022, 5:04 am
Bennett: Israel is ours because it’s the Jewish homeland, not because of Holocaust
80 years after Wannsee Conference, PM says a ‘strong, secure, independent, thriving, diverse, free and united’ state is needed to ‘ensure the existence of the Jewish people’
By ToI Staff
President of German Football Association Fritz Keller prior to the German soccer cup (DFB Pokal) final match between RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund in Berlin, Germany, May 13, 2021. (Maja Hitij/Pool via AP)
May 19, 2021, 5:22 pm
German soccer president resigns after comparing deputy to Nazi-era judge
Lamenting ‘sad low point,’ Fritz Keller steps down after likening organization’s vice president to Roland Freisler, head of the Third Reich’s People’s Court
By AP
Ralph Genende
May 31, 2018, 3:12 pm
Ralph Genende
Germany gives me hope
It’s inspiring to see how deeply and sincerely the country reckons with the horrific crimes of its past
The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (JTA/Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images/File)
June 26, 2016, 2:31 am
Academics go to war over the study of mass killings
Ahead of international conference in Jerusalem, two rival camps of genocide scholars are at each other’s throats, including accusations of anti-Semitism and debates over the Holocaust
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, upon boarding their flight at Ben Gurion International Airport to Berlin, October 21, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
October 21, 2015, 1:02 pm
Netanyahu blames Jerusalem mufti for Holocaust, is accused of ‘absolving Hitler’
PM says he never intended to imply that in 1941 a Palestinian religious leader convinced the fuhrer to exterminate Jews; Israeli and Palestinian leaders castigate him for ‘shameful’ comment
By Adiv Sterman and Raphael Ahren
Tourists photograph themselves in front of the Berlin 1936 Olympic Stadium, its twin towers and Olympic symbol still soaring high (photo credit: AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
December 16, 2014, 6:04 pm
In eternally stained Berlin, worrying about Israel
Op-ed: The Jews’ war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. And we’re easy to find now
By David Horovitz
Illustrative photo of the villa where the 1942 Wannsee Conference was held, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. (photo credit: Adam Carr/WIkimedia Commons)
May 23, 2014, 6:08 pm
Eichmann’s interrogator reburied in Germany
Avner Less, who spent hundreds of hours with the ‘architect of the Holocaust,’ reinterred near Wannsee Conference mansion
By David Rising
The villa at 56-58 Am Grossen Wannsee, where the Wannsee Conference was held. Today it is a memorial and museum. (photo credit: Adam Carr)
March 12, 2013, 10:46 am
Heaven-bound, a Torah in Wannsee
Once the Nazis planned the Holocaust at the infamous Berlin villa; now Jews are writing a Torah scroll there
By Raphael Ahren
Joshua Hammerman
April 19, 2012, 10:56 am
Joshua Hammerman
‘Never again’ is not enough
Our goal should be nothing less than for the next generation to see bearing witness not as a burden, but as a privilege, an honor, and yet another source of pride in who they are
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