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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Yannick Pasquet

Holocaust survivor Naki Bega at her daughter's home in Athens, Greece, on March 14, 2023. (Louisa GOULIAMAKI/AFP)
March 15, 2023, 5:49 pm
Long ignored, Greek Holocaust survivors finally tell their story
Naki Bega, one of less than a dozen survivors remaining in south European country, survived Auschwitz and 22-day death march; Greece marks 80th anniversary of first deportation
By Yannick Pasquet
Germany's Anti-Semitism Commissioner Felix Klein (2nd from R) and Rabbi Gesa Ederberg (R) listen to the testimonies of Ukrainian jewish youths Mark from Kyiv (2nd from L) and Sonja from Odessa at Berlin's Jewish International school in Berlin on March 24, 2022. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
March 31, 2022, 10:59 am
Ukraine’s Jews find ‘remarkable’ refuge in Germany, 77 years after the Holocaust
Thousands of Ukrainian Jewish refugees have fled fighitng for German safety; local community chief says Berlin has ‘taken on its historic obligations’
By Yannick Pasquet
People arrive on a train from Ukraine's border at Berlin's main train station on March 2, 2022. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 12:27 pm
‘Welcome to Berlin’: Ukrainian refugees pour into Germany by the thousands
Volunteers greet new arrivals with food, medical aid and guidance as city braces for an expected influx of 20,000; at least 5,000 have already reached Germany
By Yannick Pasquet
Illustrative: The scene at the Palace of Justice in Nuernberg, Germany, on September 30, 1946, during the trial of 20 top Nazi war criminals. (AP)
November 18, 2021, 6:53 pm
German justice system was contaminated by Nazis for decades after WWII – researchers
Until the early 70s, more than 80% of top judicial officials had worked in Hitler’s justice apparatus, 3 in 4 belonged to the Nazi party
By Yannick Pasquet
Judicial officers stand in the empty court room of the Langericht Itzehoe court prior to the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary of the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool). Inset shows Irmgard Furchner.
October 5, 2021, 4:44 pm
Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, released from custody after fleeing trial
Irmgard Furchner allowed to return to her retirement home ahead of fresh hearing on charges of complicity in murder of more than 10,000 people at Stutthof camp
By Yannick Pasquet
Judicial officers stand in the empty court room of the Langericht Itzehoe court prior to the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary of the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool). Inset shows Irmgard Furchner.
October 1, 2021, 6:39 am
Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, remanded in custody after going on the run
Court orders Irmgard Furchner be held pending resumption of trial on October 19, after she left her retirement home near Hamburg and took cab to subway station, instead of hearing
By Yannick Pasquet
A judicial officer in the courtroom prior to the trial of Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
September 30, 2021, 1:35 pm
Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, skips trial opening, is declared fugitive
Arrest warrant issued after Irmgard Furchner absconds; defendant charged with complicity in the murders of more than 10,000 people at the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland
By Yannick Pasquet
Barbed wire fence and a watch tower are seen at the former Nazi Death Camp Stutthof, in Sztutowo, July 21, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
September 30, 2021, 6:01 am
Former Nazi death camp secretary, a 96-year-old woman, stands trial
Irmgard Furchner is charged with complicity in murders of more than 10,000 people Stutthof — one of first women prosecuted in such a crime in decades
By Yannick Pasquet
Barbed wire fence and a watch tower are seen at the former Nazi Death Camp Stutthof, in Sztutowo, July 21, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
September 28, 2021, 2:11 pm
Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, faces landmark trial in Germany
First such case in recent years against a woman, and one who was a minor at the time of alleged crimes; lawyer says unclear Irmgard Furchner understood fate that awaited prisoners
By Yannick Pasquet and Sebastien ASH
Syrian defendant Eyad al-Gharib, accused of crimes against humanity in the first trial of its kind to emerge from the Syrian conflict, arrives to hear his verdict in the court room on February 24, 2021 in Koblenz, western Germany. (Thomas Lohnes/AFP/POOL)
February 24, 2021, 6:01 pm
In landmark trial, Germany convicts Syrian agent of state-sponsored torture
Former Assad intelligence official found guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity for Assad regime, in first case of its kind worldwide
By Yannick Pasquet
Doses of the Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 27, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann / POOL / AFP)
December 27, 2020, 11:54 am
How BioNTech-Pfizer won the great global coronavirus vaccine race
As the German biotechnology firm worked on a shot to defeat virus, other companies around the country already began organizing the infrastructure needed to deliver it to billions
By Hui Min NEO, Yannick Pasquet, Michelle Fitzpatrick and Yann Schreiber
This photo taken on January 31, 2018 ,shows Holocaust survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch addressing the Bundestag (Germany's lower house of parliament) in Berlin during the annual ceremony in memory of Holocaust victims and survivors (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
May 10, 2020, 11:20 am
Long-silent Auschwitz cellist finds her voice in fight against fascism
For years, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch could not talk about her time playing music a few meters from the crematorium, but now she’s speaking out against rising dangers of anti-Semitism
By Yannick Pasquet
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, from left, visit the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland on December 6, 2019. (Photo/Markus Schreiber via AP)
December 6, 2019, 4:08 pm
Merkel at Auschwitz: Remembering Nazi crimes inseparable from German identity
Making her first visit to Nazi death camp as chancellor, German leader speaks of ‘deep shame’ and vows fight against anti-Semitism and all hatred is priority for her government
By Yannick Pasquet
Museum director Piotr Cywinski, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and deputy director Andrzej Kacorzyk, from left, visit the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland on Friday, Decembe 6, 2019 (Photo/Markus Schreiber)
December 6, 2019, 1:01 pm
With anti-Semitism on the rise in Germany, Merkel visits Auschwitz for 1st time
Chancellor says on eve of Poland trip that fight against anti-Semitism and all hatred is priority for her government; hails $66 million donation for Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
By Yannick Pasquet
Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum speaks during an interview with AFP in his home in Berlin on December 4, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
December 5, 2019, 1:18 pm
Auschwitz survivor says he has ‘duty to the dead’ to share horrors of Holocaust
Ahead of Merkel’s first visit to Nazi death camp, Leon Schwarzbaum recalls letter he gave to former camp guard during trial: ‘There is no forgiveness’
By Yannick Pasquet
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