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 Poland Asks Germany For ‘Priceless’ Documents That Would Prove Poles Saved Jews
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Poland has asked Germany to return archival documents regarding war crimes and saving Jews. The parliamentary team for estimating the amount of compensation due to Poland from Germany, which is led by Law and Justice Party lawmaker Arkadiusz Mularczyk, wants to recover historical documents from Germany regarding the period of the…
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Community The German Policeman Who Saved Torah Scrolls During The Holocaust
An old man in a blue kibbutz cap, who grew up in the same German village as my father, showed me the Torah that had been rescued during Kristallnacht — not by the Jews, but by Christian neighbors: “Ja , Nazi orders or no, the Christians decided to save what they could for the Jews. They…
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Community Why Did The Holocaust Museum Omit A Key Advocate For Jews?
One of the most important Americans to speak out against the Holocaust has been omitted from the U.S. Holocaust Museum’s new exhibit on “Americans and the Holocaust.” How could this have happened? James G. McDonald (1886-1964) was an unlikely figure to end up playing a prominent role in Jewish affairs. A Catholic from the Midwest…
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Fast Forward Man Fires Red Paint Balls At Israeli Flag In Downtown Philadelphia
(JTA) — An Israeli flag flying in downtown Philadelphia at the spot where a Holocaust memorial is under construction was sprayed with red paint. The vandalism, made by a paintball gun with red paint that was found in a nearby trash can, occurred on Tuesday. Staff members of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia were…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank Diary Entries On Sexuality Are Restored By Scientists
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Researchers in the Dutch capital were able to recover two pages from a diary of Anne Frank containing texts on sexuality that she had written and erased. The pages, whose content for decades had remained unknown, appeared in one of several diaries penned by the Jewish teenage diarist during her time hiding…
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Community The Misinterpretation Of The Diaries Of Anne Frank And Luis De Carvajal, El Mozo
Myths and martyrs hold significant space in Jewish storytelling and Jewish belief, and there are no two texts that prove this quite like “The Diary of Anne Frank” and the “Memoirs of Luis de Carvajal, El Mozo.” Anne Frank was one of eight people captured by the Nazis in the Secret Annex, and Luis de…
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News Is Jordan Peterson Enabling Jew Hatred?
Editor’s Note, May 14, 1:08 p.m.: The original version of this article featured an illustration juxtaposing Jordan Peterson’s image with that of Hitler. In the eyes of many, the art equated Peterson and Hitler, which was not our intent. We were trying to convey Peterson’s intellectual interest in the phenomena of Hitler and the Holocaust….
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Fast Forward Trump Signs Law To Help Holocaust Victims Reclaim Lost Property
(JTA) — President Trump signed legislation to help victims of the Holocaust and their families reclaim lost property in Poland. The Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today, or JUST Act, was first introduced in February. The measure requires the State Department to report on the progress of certain European countries toward the return of or restitution for wrongfully…
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