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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Fast Forward Man who stabbed Spanish tourist at Berlin Holocaust memorial sentenced to 13 years in prison
The assailant was convicted on multiple charges, including attempted murder and attempted membership in a foreign terrorist organization
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Fast Forward Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by the Nazis
This marks the first time Poland has repatriated cultural property held under its care that was illegally taken from another country
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Fast Forward The real Holocaust history behind ‘Papillon,’ the Oscar-nominated short about a star Jewish swimmer
A painterly animated film revives the memory of French Olympic hero Alfred Nakache, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz
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Fast Forward Documentary about Jews killed by their Polish neighbors after the Holocaust could be banned in Poland
A minister in the president’s office called the film 'historical anti-Polish manipulation'
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Fast Forward US soldier who protected Jews in POW camp during WWII to be awarded Medal of Honor
Israel honored Roddie Edmonds as a Righteous Among the Nations' in 2015
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Yiddish World Confronting art and love as the Nazis close in
In the play ‘Beneath the Ice of the Vistula,’ a Jewish composer refuses to flee before finishing his master work.
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News As the last generation of Holocaust survivors die, is AI the future of Holocaust education?
An AI-powered digital Holocaust survivor is making the rounds at New York schools and shuls
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Books Art theft, angels and neo-Nazis force a reckoning with the past in ‘The Tavern at the End of History’
The characters in Morris Collins’ novel turn to history and mysticism to grapple with tragedies
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