Germany
While the Frank family went into hiding to avoid being deported to a concentration camp, the Kleins continued to live freely.
It was the first time in the 70-year history of the German Parliament a committee chairman has been voted out.
“What happened here was tragic. The world recognized that; President Trump recognized that and has put a major focus on stamping out anti-Semitism wherever we find it, and supporting the Jewish people and Israel in every way we can,” said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“In this place, thousands of Jews prayed. ... These walls speak of emotions, telling the story of a community that turned to ashes, and stood up again and was revived,” said Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg of the Central Orthodox Synagogue of Berlin.
In the locker room at the Mcfit Freiburg gym, a man allegedly tore off the head covering of Samuel Kantorovych, 19, threatened to beat him, called him a “dirty Jew” and shouted “Free Palestine” before he spat on it and tossed it into the garbage.
“We are currently planning how and when to execute you. At the next rally? Or will we get you outside your home?” read an email sent to Green Party politician Cem Ozdemir.
Iranian judoka granted refugee status by Germany
Saeid Mollaei criticized the Iranian government for demanding that he not face Israeli judoka Sagi Muki at the World Judo Championships.
An unknown assailant insulted the elderly man; when he tried to defend himself verbally, the assailant punched him, injuring his head and chin.
Only 35 percent of respondents thought Jew-hatred wasn’t increasing in Germany.
The 93-year-old, known as “Bruno D.,” is accused of aiding and abetting 5,230 murders as part of the force at the Stutthof concentration camp.
“The interconnections of modern anti-Semitism among Islamists, the far-left and the far-right are patently obvious, and [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel offers no program of action to blunt the rise of this highly dangerous form of Jew-hatred,” said Benjamin Weinthal, fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an analyst of German politics.
German pop-music enthusiast Jana Lange, 40, and outdoor painter Kevin S., 20, were shot and killed 27-year-old by Stephan Balliet, who first attempted to break into the synagogue in Halle.
