With his wife and infant sons, he took refuge in unlikely places, including an opera house, an abandoned car and a subway station converted to a bunker. By Richard Sandomir The people who hid Curt ...

Berlin’s Jewish museum has selected as its new leader a non-Jewish scholar of Jewish studies. Peter Schafer, a German academic who had previously led Princeton University‘s Judaic studies program, ...

They were philosophers, bankers and musicians: The Jewish Mendelssohn family left distinctive marks on Germany’s intellectual, economic and cultural life as early as the 18th century. However, the ...

Berlin is home to almost 200 museums, ranging from the independent and quirky to the vast and world-renowned. The five Unesco-listed institutions that comprise Museum Island, for example, are famed ...

An important painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, sold under duress by Jewish collector and dealer Victor Wallerstein during World War II, can stay in its current home, Berlin’s Brücke Museum, after a ...

It was a chance visit to a former Nazi bunker while contemplating the complications of being Jewish in post-October 7 Berlin that inspired artist Yury Kharchenko to put together the exhibit, “Bad/Good ...