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Switzerland

Man convicted for planning to murder Zurich Jews

A 51-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, later commuted to outpatient therapy, for planning an antisemitic attack in Zurich.

Kosher hotel in Davos receives letter with death threats and antisemitic insults

Aside from death threats and claims of “we will come and kill you all,” the letter also contained references to the Holocaust and Nazism.

Swiss Federal Council published report identifying gaps in the country’s monitoring of antisemitism and has announced measures to address them

The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) has welcomed this development, highlighting its own long-standing antisemitism report as a central source of data that repeatedly calls for stronger federal engagement.

Holocaust survivor Shlomo Graber dies in Basel aged 99

In May 1944, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis exterminated his mother, siblings and other relatives, as Graber himself recounts in his autobiography Dreimal dem Tod entkommen (Escaped Death Three Times).

Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities welcomes developments on Bührle collection contextualisation while criticising lack of financial participation

The Bührle Foundation has reaffirmed its commitment to seeking fair solutions for any works identified as confiscated during the Nazi era.

Man brandishes knife and threatens Jewish students in Lucerne

The incident took place at the local train station where the students were walking. Passers-by intervened on their behalf, and the assailant fled in panic.
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