Burials have gone out of fashion in Berlin. As space started getting tight, cemeteries have started charging rental fees on plots, and people are now choosing cremation instead. With the drop in ...

The Federal Bureau of Criminality released today what was believed to be the first nation-wide report in modern German history of desecration of cemeteries. The report revealed that while Christian as ...

Two Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized in Germany this month as both the country’s interior ministry and a prominent watchdog group have published statistics suggesting an increase in antisemitic ...

(JTA) — German police arrested two suspects in the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in the town of Geilenkirchen. The suspects, ages 21 and 33, allegedly knocked over more than 40 gravestones in the ...

Four Jewish cemeteries were desecrated last week in Germany, the “Israelitische Familienblatt” reports. In Rhens, in the Coblenz district, it says, six gravestones were smashed in the local Jewish ...

Outside a hospital in medieval Germany, people lovingly buried their deceased, sometimes placing “death crowns” in the grave. But as the centuries passed, the cemetery fell into obscurity. It was ...

BERLIN — A Jewish cemetery in the northern German city of Oldenburg was desecrated. Swastikas were daubed on the entrance columns, a wall and two cars parked near the cemetery over the weekend, the ...

About 30 headstones at a Muslim cemetery in the northwestern German city of Iserlohn have been damaged, police said Saturday. The incident occurred late Friday or early Saturday, according to a ...

The city of Erfurt in central Germany is home to an impeccably restored medieval synagogue made possible because local Jews had been expelled long before the Nazis began their campaign to destroy ...

(JTA) — Two Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized in Germany this month as both the country’s interior ministry and a prominent watchdog group have published statistics suggesting an increase in ...