It can’t have been easy for Holocaust survivor Herbert Rubinstein to read aloud the words that a Holocaust denier posted ...

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. At the age of three his parents, Amalia and Jakob, moved the family to Vienna. The young Sigmund excelled in ...

The extraordinary story of how Julian Borger’s father was rescued from the Nazis by two Welsh school teachers, this ...

After a California woman spent more than a decade obtaining reparations for Nazi plundering of her family's belongings, the ...

Baker Street resident, Reverend Francis Wahle died at the age of 95 on Tuesday May 14 after a long life during which he served as a priest ...

The British population were against the idea of another European war. The Anschluss (union) was not seen as a threat to Britain and, as both nations were German-speaking, there was a sense that ...

The Nuremberg Laws, which made Jews second-class citizens of the Third Reich, preceded the reoccupation of the Rhineland, the Anschluss, the Munich Accords, World War II and 15 million to 20 ...

Eight decades after the Holocaust, Diaspora Jews still live in fear, and their Israeli brethren are fighting for their lives.

Other questions have arisen about what happened to the artwork during the Anschluss, when Austria was annexed into the Third Reich. The painting was owned by a Jewish family during that period ...

Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938, known as the Anschluss, and the Nazis’ persecution of its Jewish population also casts a murky shadow over the picture’s ownership history.

The narrative is a fictionalized account of Maria’s time as a governess to seven children, her eventual union with Captain ...

The re-emergence of ‘Portrait of Fräulein Lieser after decades has come with a swirl of questions about its subject, one of ...