Frankfurt

Jews commemorating hostages splattered with red paint in Frankfurt

While placing photos of the 50 hostages on posts at the park, masked attackers reportedly sprayed the people attending the event with red paint.

Protesters take part in a demonstration in support of Palestinians in Gaza, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Frankfurt, Germany, October 21, 2023.
Members of Or Tamid, an advocacy group in Frankfurt for survivors of sexual abuse, from left to right, Haleli Shomer Shalom, Roglit Ishay, Daniela Shemer and Niels Gerhardt.

Frankfurt’s Jewish community launches its own sexual abuse hotline amid crises and pressure

 Protestors take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Berlin, April 6, 2024.

Granddaughter of Holocaust survivor terrorized with rape, death threats at German university

 The 'Frankfurt Silver Inscription', a 3rd-century amulet.

Archaeologists uncover earliest Christian inscription north of the Alps in Frankfurt


Frankfurt's new Jewish museum reclaims Anne Frank’s forgotten roots

A new $58 million Jewish museum is preparing to showcase the Frank family’s deep attachment to a city they left in 1933, when Anne was 4 years old.

Mirjam Wenzel is the director of the new Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, Aug. 25, 2020

Since WWII Frankfurt Jewish community has grown, gained a potent voice

There are only about 6,600 Jews in the city of 753,000, but they have a political influence that other minority populations don’t.

Volunteers with a program now called Meet a Jew talk with non-Jewish students at a school in Frankfurt, Nov. 5, 2019

Frankfurt's resurgent Jewish community has a new, potent voice

There are only about 6,600 Jews in the city of 753,000, but they have a political influence that other minority populations don’t. Fighting antisemitism is a city priority.

Worshipers in Frankfurt synagogue

German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht uncovered by archaeologists

The excavation team is also hopeful of finding other relics such as coins and documents buried in the foundations.

Frankfurt am Main Synagogue burning during Kristallnacht

Frankfurt mayor: 'Antisemitism and hatred of Jews on the rise in Germany'

“Antisemitism exists from the far left to the far right, influenced by anti-Zionism which becomes antisemitism," Becker said

Uwe Becker

Frankfurt soccer club posthumously strips presidency from former Nazi

Rudolf Gramlich, who had been club boss in the late 1930s and then again from 1955-70, had been an active member of the Nazis, becoming a party member as well as a member of the SS.

Football / soccer ball

Frankfurt Book Fair features exhibit on Jewish connection to Israel

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's major fair for the print and digital content industry.

Frankfurt mayor Uwe Becker and Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations Shimon Samuels at the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair.

Bomb from the second World War defused in Frankfurt, 16,000 evacuated

The bomb, found close to the headquarters of the European Central bank, was unearthed on a construction site at the end of June and weighed 500kg.

The Frankfurt skyline