Some say it feels like walking through a field of gravestones. Polina Chernyavskaya, a 24-year-old student from Kazakhstan, ...

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe has been visited by millions but fears exist that Germany’s tradition of ...

Margot Friedländer, a German Jew who survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and became a high-profile witness to Nazi ...

And it should. “Never Again” is not a slogan. It is a test. Twenty years on, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial stands not as a triumph of architecture or even of remembrance but as a daily ...

As World War II fades from living memory, its place in the German collective consciousness is as complicated as ever.

In Berlin, a week of remembrance begins on Friday to commemorate the end of the Second World War 80 years ago. Until May 11, ...

Others liken it to a maze of coffins, disorientating and eerily quiet despite being in the middle of Berlin. The German capital’s somber Holocaust memorial — an arrangement of 2,711 concrete steles ...

A young girl plays hide and seek in the concrete steles of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin on April 14th, 2025. Photo: John Macdougall / AFP The Holocaust memorial in Berlin will mark its 20th ...