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 Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video, ‘F—ed up,’ places the West Bank and Holocaust side-by-side
The song, posted Tuesday, has garnered more than 14 million views on X alone
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Film & TV In the brutality of ‘The Brutalist,’ a misunderstanding of the Jewish architect’s experience
László Tóth's story runs counter to the real-life experience of Marcel Breuer, Ernő Goldfinger and others
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Film & TV How the master builder behind ‘The Brutalist’ was inspired by her hometown synagogue
Oscar nominee Judy Becker talks about bringing László Tóth's designs to life
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Fast Forward Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denies comparing CDC to ‘Nazi death camps’
The embattled nominee for HHS secretary has made controversial remarks about Nazis and vaccines in the past
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Culture Anne Frank didn’t live here — she never had the chance
A full-scale recreation of the 'Secret Annex' opens in New York, a place the Frank family sought vainly to reach
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News Holocaust distortion more dangerous than denial, warns departing IHRA chief Kathrin Meyer
Meyer, a non-Jewish researcher, has helmed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance at a time when its definition of antisemitism grew controversial
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Fast Forward The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Hila Weisz-Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.
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Opinion Why Israel should have little to do with Holocaust Remembrance Day
The memory of this atrocity doesn't belong to any one nation state
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Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
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News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
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Film & TV For ill and for good, this ‘Wicked’ song has become ubiquitous
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News As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach
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