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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

Deborah Cole

A magazine is displayed during a preview of the exhibition 'My Verses Are like Dynamite' by Curt Bloch at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany on February 8, 2024. (Stefanie Loos / AFP)
February 9, 2024, 5:11 pm
Nazi gorillas and Hitler as a clown: Holocaust survivor’s cartoons on show in Berlin
Full collection of Curt Block’s satirical magazines goes on display eight decades after he created them with a fountain pen and newspaper cutouts while hiding in a Dutch attic
By Deborah Cole
Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim arrives for a ceremony to award him honorary citizenship of the German capital in Berlin, Germany, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
September 28, 2023, 6:52 am
German maestro to take baton from Barenboim at Berlin opera
Israeli-Argentinian conductor steps down from leading venue after diagnosis with neurological condition
By Deborah Cole
A man wearing VR goggles is seen next to a screen depicting Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher at the Meta hub in Berlin on June 6, 2023. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
June 7, 2023, 7:00 pm
In first, artificial intelligence used for Holocaust education
Visitors in Berlin can converse with an AI-generated avatar based on interviews held with a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
By Deborah Cole
US Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann touches the freshly laid 'Stolpersteine' (stumbling stones) for members of her family in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria, on May 30, 2023. (Thomas Kienzle/AFP)
June 1, 2023, 11:01 pm
Holocaust memorial project marks milestone with 100,000 ‘stumbling blocks’
Gunter Demnig, who began initiative, says he hopes the Stolpersteine will help create ‘a different image of Germany,’ as US ambassador lays memorial plaque for her relatives
By Pauline CURTET and Deborah Cole
Israeli director Guy Nattiv and English actor Helen Mirren (R) attend a photocall for the film "Golda," at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 20, 2023 in Berlin. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
February 21, 2023, 4:56 pm
‘Golda’ director defends casting Helen Mirren: ‘She’s got the Jewish chops’
At Berlin film festival premiere, Guy Nattiv says he was ‘surprised’ by uproar over decision to pick non-Jewish actress for star role
By Deborah Cole
British actress Helen Mirren arrives on the red carpet ahead of the premiere of the film 'Golda,' at the Berlin International Film Festival, February 20, 2023 in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)
February 21, 2023, 4:56 pm
‘Golda’ star Helen Mirren says ex-PM would be ‘horrified’ by Israeli politics today
At Berlin film festival for biopic’s premiere, British actress says government’s efforts to upend Israel’s judicial system mark ‘the rise of dictatorship’
By Deborah Cole
Berlinale Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek, US actress and Berlinale Jury President Kristen Stewart, Iranian-French actress and jury member Golshifteh Farahani, and others hold placards reading "Woman Life Freedom" during a protest in solidarity with protesters in Iran, on the red carpet at the Berlinale on February 18, 2023, in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)
February 19, 2023, 9:04 am
Iranian struggle for freedom takes on starring role at Berlin film festival
Berlinale, long a champion of Iran’s embattled directors, features several of their documentaries this year, including pair of movies exposing brutal jail conditions
By Deborah Cole
A woman cycles past a row of posters of the upcoming Berlinale 73rd International Film Festival in Berlin on February 15, 2023. (David GANNON / AFP)
February 16, 2023, 11:11 am
Berlin film festival opens with spotlight on Iran and Ukraine
Special events to include red-carpet protests in solidarity with Iranians, Ukrainians; Helen Mirren to premiere ‘Golda,’ playing Israeli PM; Spielberg to get life’s work award
By Deborah Cole
Klaus Schirdewahn (C R), representative of the LGBTQ community, receives applause during the annual ceremony in memory of Holocaust victims and survivors in the plenary hall of the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament, in Berlin on January 27, 2023, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)
January 27, 2023, 1:26 pm
In a first, German parliament spotlights Nazis’ LGBTQ victims
Jewish community, Yad Vashem welcome move to broaden Germany’s remembrance culture during a ceremony on International Holocaust Memorial Day
By Deborah Cole
An 80-year-old blonde baby doll belonging to a Holocaust survivor on display during the opening of an exhibition of 16 objects lent from Yad Vashem on display at the Paul-Loebe-Haus parliamentary building in Berlin, January 24, 2023. (Julien GATHELIER / AFP)
January 24, 2023, 11:23 pm
In first, Israel loans Holocaust survivors’ heirlooms to Germany in remembrance drive
Director of Yad Vashem, which lent out the items for exhibition, calls for fresh ways to connect with younger generations as survivors die out
By Deborah Cole
This file photo taken on September 29, 2017 shows conductor Daniel Barenboim posing for a photo at the State Opera in Berlin (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
January 6, 2023, 7:44 pm
Israeli-Argentine conductor Barenboim resigns from Berlin opera over ill health
Storied maestro has been acclaimed for a stellar career that saw him begin performing internationally as a pianist aged 10
By Deborah Cole
Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa (Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink) by Max Beckmann on display at the Grisebach auction house in Berlin ( Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
November 26, 2022, 8:29 am
Wartime Beckmann self-portrait poised for German auction record
Widely considered a masterpiece, Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink, features the artist during his Dutch exile from Nazi Germany and is expected to sell for up to 30 million euros
By Deborah Cole
Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor (2nd-R) and Berlin's Deputy Mayor Bettina Jarasch (L) present Anne-Marget Schmid (2ndL) and Gundela Suter, descendants and grand-daughters of four German 'Righteous Among the Nations', with medals from Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial during a posthumous ceremony in their honor at the City Hall of Berlin, on November 2, 2022. (Jens Schlueter/AFP)
November 2, 2022, 7:19 pm
In Berlin, 2 married couples who saved Jews from Nazis given honor by Yad Vashem
Israel, Germany hold ceremony to recognize Bruno and Anna Schwartze and Friedrich and Helene Huebner, who helped neighbors survive the Holocaust: ‘Heroes in the fight for freedom’
By Deborah Cole
Franco Albrecht, a German army officer accused of planning a neo-Nazi attack, at a Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on July 15, 2022. (Boris ROESSLER / POOL / AFP)
July 15, 2022, 3:00 pm
German court sentences ex-soldier to 5 and a half years for far-right terror plot
Prosecutors say Franco Albrecht, 33, is first serviceman in post-war history convicted of attempting terrorist attack
By Sarah Maria Brech and Deborah Cole
Illustrative: Visitors walk past a display during the press preview of Documenta 15, one of the world's most significant exhibition of contemporary art, in Kassel, Germany, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
June 17, 2022, 4:08 pm
Major German art show to open despite accusations of support for BDS
15th ‘Documenta’ being curated by Indonesian collective accused of supporting Israel-boycott movement, despite German law barring use of federal funds for those with BDS ties
By Deborah Cole
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