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Celebrated Berlin Jewish bakery closes, citing harassment since October 7

Babka & Krantz opened in 2022 and added a second location in December 2024, adjacent to the memorial at the site where the Nazis devised their “final solution” for the Jews during the Holocaust.

Babka & Krantz, a Berlin Jewish bakery, closed citing harassment as well as economic pressure, as seen in June 2026.
A single lit candle lies on a frost covered concrete block at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on January 26, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

Syrian national arrested for aiding 2025 Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing

A single lit candle lies on a frost covered concrete block at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on January 26, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

German police arrest Syrian suspected of helping attack at Holocaust memorial

An illustrative silhouette of an intelligence agent handler with a backdrop of the Iranian flag.

Two men charged for plot to assassinate German Jewish leaders on behalf of Iran


Germany: 'Respectable antisemitism'

Even as Germany strengthened its institutional response to antisemitism, it became the central European battleground over the legitimacy of the IHRA definition itself.

GRAVES DESECRATED by vandals with Nazi swastikas and antisemitic slogans are seen in the Jewish cemetery of Weyhers, Germany, near the city of Ebersburg, Aug. 2005.

'Stay Alive': A personal story of anti-Nazi Germans - review

Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive recounts wartime Berlin through hidden Jews, German resisters, and the ordeal of his own father.

A GROUP of Hitler Youth, 1933.

Man who stabbed Spanish tourist at Berlin Holocaust memorial sentenced to 13 years in prison

His victim was slashed in the neck and face, hospitalized and placed into a coma, and still is unable to work, the court was told.

(ILLUSTRATIVE) Police officers are seen near the Holocaust Memorial a day after stabbing in Berlin, Germany on February 22, 2025.

Investigation opens over how Berlin groups spent $3 million received to fight antisemitism

The Berlin branch of the Christian Democratic Union is being probed by a parliamentary committee for allegedly improperly allocating 2.6 million euros to combat antisemitism.

Visitors sit at the opening of the "Nova Music Festival Exhibition" in the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Oct. 5, 2025

Josephine Baker: Dancer, spy, and champion against racism and antisemitism

From Paris stages to WWII spy missions, Josephine Baker fought racism and antisemitism while inspiring generations worldwide.

Havana Baker: Josephine in Cuba, 1950; photo by Rudolf Suroch.

Berlin Film Festival director's future in spotlight after Gaza furore

Commissioner for Culture and Media, Wolfram Weimer, was reportedly planning to sack festival director Tricia Tuttle.

Berlin Festival Director Tricia Tuttle attends a press conference for the movie 'No Good Men' at the 76th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 12, 2026.

French animated short tells story of Jewish swimmer who survived Auschwitz

The film is based on the extraordinary real life of Alfred Nakache, a Jewish athlete whose story of resilience under Nazi persecution has previously been told in two French documentaries.

ARTEM "ALFRED" Nakache (inset), a Jew who swam for France at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, is depicted in lane 4 in the animated short film 'Papillon.'

Germany can no longer blame only the far Right for antisemitism - opinion

Germany still sees antisemitism as a far-right relic; the events after the October 7 massacre exposed a far more complex and uncomfortable reality.

Occupation Against Antisemitism occupied a building at the Technical University in Berlin

Gaza 'genocide' comment prompts walkout by German minister at Berlin Film Festival

Also during the Berlin Film Festival, actor Channing Tatum was asked whether he'd join over 80 other Berlin Film Festival alumni in calling on organizers to take an official stance on Gaza.

Palestinian director Abdallah Alkhatib (L) and Algerian producer Taqiyeddine Issaad accept the GWFF Best Feature Film Debut Award for "Chronicles From the Siege" during the Award Ceremony of the 76th Berlinale on February 21, 2026.

‘When I didn’t have a voice, the film gave me one’: David, Ariel Cunio attend screening in Berlin

An updated version of Tom Shoval’s A Letter to David was screened at the 76th Berlinale, after an “incomplete version” of the film had its world premiere last year.

David (L) and Ariel Cunio.