Latest Historic Responsibility News
May 7, 2013
| Germany.info
Ambassador Ammon and LBI International Director Kahn Strauss opened an exhibition titled “The Mendelssohns: A German Family of Scholars, Bankers, and Artists” in the German Residence. Guests enjoyed music by Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Leo Baeck Institute Exhibition
May 6, 2013
| Federal Foreign Office
In a keynote address at the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Budapest, Foreign Minister Westerwelle declared, “Anti-Semitism has no place in Berlin, in Budapest or anywhere else in Europe or the world.”
World Jewish Congress
Apr 25, 2013
| Germany.info
Former Israeli Ambassador Reuven Merhav gave a keynote speech on German-Jewish Dialogue and Reconciliation at the Goethe Institute in Washington. The discussion following the speech centered on how each generation relates to and accentuates its rememberance of the Holocaust in a different way.
Reconciling Lives
Apr 11, 2013
| Germany.info
Ambassador Ammon attended the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Days of Remembrance Ceremony on Thursday, April 11 in the Capitol Rotunda. The event honors the survivors and liberators of the Holocaust. This year, the speakers emphasized those who risked their lives to stand up for what was right.
Days of Remembrance
Mar 15, 2013
| Germany.info
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, the last surviving member of the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler and the founder of what would become the Munich Security Conference, has passed away in Munich. He was 90 years old.
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist
