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Schoolgirls from Görlitz win the Leo Trepp School Prize

as told by actor Brad Garrett

We spoke to the historians at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research into Totalitarianism about their work on the migration of Jewish women.

In this series, we showcase culinary discoveries made by our contributors. Today, we’re sharing the recipe for borscht (борщ) from Uwe Dziuballa’s *Schalom Cookbook*

Recipe courtesy of Marta Gonzalez de Mendibil, Katarina Rakić and Nomi Drachinsky

Born in the Deep South of the USA, Lauren Leiderman trained as an opera singer at the Boston Conservatory of Music. She now lives in Germany’s easternmost city, where she works as a tour guide, history educator and historian specialising in the Jewish history of Görlitz. The Jewish Remembrance Week, which she helped to initiate, begins there at the end of June. We spoke to Lauren Leiderman about her work.

Seit 2017 leitet Michael Kretschmer die Regierungsgeschäfte des Freistaates. Ein Markenzeichen des gebürtigen Görlitzers und studierten Wirtschaftsingenieurs ist es für alle Sächsinnen und Sachsen sprechen zu wollen. Deshalb hat der Ministerpräsident auch die Schirmherrschaft für das Jahr der jüdischen Kultur übernommen. Anlässlich des Starts haben wir ihm einige Fragen gestellt, die er uns gerne beantwortet hat:

as part of the theme year "Tacheles. Year of Jewish Culture in Saxony" 2026