This is the Forward’s coverage of the Holocaust (also called the Shoah), the genocide of Europe’s Jews committed by the Nazis during World War II.
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Culture Hidden in Central Park, a modest installation of Holocaust art — but what was it doing there?
A discovery of a memorial to Jewish concentration camp prisoners yields questions of identity, memory and the purpose of art
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Theater The new Anne Frank musical wants you to laugh at ‘woke culture’ — but is it funny?
In 'Slam Frank,' it’s hard to tell who’s in on the joke and who is just…in it.
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Books How Yiddish authors made a new world writing for children
Miriam Udel’s book tracks the development of literature made to shape a Jewish universe
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Fast Forward Texas school district yanks YA Holocaust novel ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ after using AI to detect ‘DEI content’
The 1988 novel by Jewish author Jane Yolen is about a young Jewish American girl who travels back in time to World War II-era Poland and is sent to a Nazi death camp
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Yiddish World How this Jewish day school teaches students about the Holocaust
Students at the Ramaz Middle School view a map in English and Yiddish, as well as artifacts contributed by community members
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Art A mural dedicated to Holocaust memory — in Babylonian, Yiddish and Chinese
Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson’s installation comes to Philadelphia
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Film & TV ‘Eleanor the Great’ is a crowd-pleasing comedy with a queasy Holocaust concept
Scarlett Johansson’s debut as a director leverages a unique tragedy for a universal message
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Fast Forward Ohio auction house halts sale of paintings looted during the Holocaust and billed as ‘unclaimed property’
The Monuments Men and Women Foundation linked the 17th-century works to Adolphe Schloss, a German Jew whose collection was seized by the Nazis
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Opinion It’s time for the pro-Palestinian movement to make a radical change
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News Should synagogues remove the Israeli flag from bimahs now? How a New York shul made the decision
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Opinion JD Vance just made a critical error in Israel — and time to curb Hamas is running short
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Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
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Fast Forward As 1000+ rabbis sign anti-Mamdani letter, others decry mounting ‘red lines’ in Jewish communities
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News Mamdani has created ‘great fear,’ and Jewish voters are ‘more motivated than I have ever seen,’ Cuomo says
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Fast Forward The World War II origins of the White House East Wing, now demolished
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Opinion Can an idyllic dream of Israel ever be reality? She says: ‘Coexistence, My Ass’
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