This is the Forward’s coverage of Dachau, the first major concentration camp built by the Nazis during the Holocaust, located in southern Germany.
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Fast Forward ‘Righteous’ Italian Priest Giuseppe Girotti Put on Path to Sainthood
An Italian priest who was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp because of his efforts to save Jews during World War II was recently beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. Father Giuseppe Girotti, whom Yad Vashem declared a Righteous Among the Nations in 1995, was beatified April 26 at a ceremony in the town of…
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Fast Forward Angela Merkel Visits Dachau in Midst of Election Campaign
Angela Merkel laid a wreath at Dachau concentration camp on Tuesday, making her the first German chancellor to visit the death camp where Nazis killed more than 41,000 people in the Holocaust. Taking a pause in her campaign for a third term in office, the chancellor met survivors, including Abba Naor, an 85-year-old Jew whose…
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Fast Forward Angela Merkel Will Visit Memorial at Dachau
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be the first German head of state to visit the concentration camp memorial at Dachau. Merkel will deliver a speech at the annual public festival in the city of Dachau on Aug. 20, and is making it a point to visit the memorial there, according to her spokesperson Steffen Seibert….
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News Muslim Clerics Learn Lessons of Auschwitz Firsthand
When Muslims tour Auschwitz and other sites of the Jewish Holocaust, and encounter survivors of that genocide face-to-face, the points of connection they make can be quite unpredictable. For Barakat Fawzi Hasan, a Palestinian assistant professor in Islamic Education at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, a moment of clarity came as he and his co-religionists listened,…
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Fast Forward Survivor Who Told on Eichmann is Honored
Lothar Hermann, a German Jew who advised Israel that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was residing in Argentina, was honored. On Monday, Hermann was publicly recognized by Israeli representatives in Buenos Aires and the Argentinian Jewish umbrella organization DAIA. He also was recognized by the Coronel Suarez City municipality in which he lived and where…
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The Schmooze ‘The Normal Heart’ Beats On Broadway
“The Normal Heart,” just revived on Broadway, is less a play than a sensory experience, likely to leave audiences feeling drained, exhilarated and perhaps a bit guilty. That the play is powerful is, given its subject matter, to be expected. That it is nuanced as well is a tribute to playwright Larry Kramer, a man…
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The Schmooze First Jewish Collection for a ‘Small Press Legend’
Uprooted at age 9, abandoned into poverty, targeted by anti-Semitism, exposed to the horrors of World War II and finally confined to a wheelchair, Ed Galing’s life has been beset by ongoing difficulties. Yet he has never lacked dedication, perseverance, or imagination, in art or in life. In eloquently written work that defies his hardscrabble…
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The Schmooze Gershom Scholem’s Brother
Many years ago, while researching German supporters of Holocaust reparations, I went in search of information on the social-democratic politician Kurt Schumacher. I found what I was looking for, but right next to Schumacher’s listing in an encyclopedia was a surprise: “Scholem, Werner, * 29.12.1895 Berlin, † 17.7.1940 KZ Buchenwald; konfessionslos.” It was Gershom Scholem’s…
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