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 A Nazi Commandeered Her House. She Survived The Holocaust By Hiding In It Anyway.
An inquiry into the provenance of a painting by Egon Schiele has produced an extraordinary account of its former owner’s life in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Elsa Koditschek, a Jewish widow who sent her children to safety ahead of the German invasion, spent much of World War II living in hiding in an upstairs apartment of her…
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The Schmooze Hitler’s Great-Nephew Was Dumped By His Jewish Fiancee When She Learned His Identity
Romeo and Juliet. Paris and Helen. Hitler’s great-nephew and an anonymous Jewish Long Island woman. Some great passions just aren’t built to last. As if the news cycle wasn’t exhilarating enough, journalists for the German publication Bild at last succeeded in securing an interview with a long elusive source: one of the three great-nephews of…
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The Schmooze Justin Bieber Once Toured Yad Vashem Hand-In-Hand With Auschwitz-Survivor
Justin Bieber frequently sings about moms, a category of women he clearly has great affection for. But the grandmother file in his oeuvre was thin until this point. No longer. Bieber’s longtime manager Scooter Braun spoke about his client’s warm relationship with Braun’s grandmother on Thursday night. Receiving the title “Ambassador of Peace” at an…
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Fast Forward Walter Laqueur, Holocaust Survivor Who Reinvented Terrorism Studies, Dies At 97
(JTA) — Walter Laqueur, a Holocaust survivor and one of the 20th century’s most prominent scholars, has died. Laqueur passed away at his home in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. He was 97. Born in Wroclaw, Poland, and raised in Breslau, Germany, he was a teenager when his parents sent him to Mandatory Palestine only days before the…
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Culture 8 Jewish Members Of Parliament Announce Opposition To Holocaust Memorial
A 50-million-pound Holocaust memorial planned for the Victoria Garden Towers, a public park outside the United Kingdom’s Parliament, has drawn new criticism from an unexpected group: Jewish Members of Parliament. The memorial was devised by the Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye and English-Israeli sculptor Ron Arad, who won a contest with their design last October….
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Fast Forward Minneapolis Holocaust Survivor Reclaims His German Citizenship
At 85 years old, a Holocaust survivor living in Minneapolis became a German citizen. Fred Amram described the re-naturalization ceremony September 25 at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul as “bittersweet.” Born in Nazi Germany in 1933, Amram was stripped of his citizenship at 2 years old, when the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws were enacted, the…
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Food Frances Edelstein, Holocaust Survivor And ‘Polish Tea Room’ Owner, Dies At 92
She was a Holocaust survivor who shared fed Broadway’s elite – and Times Square characters — at a heimish eatery so beloved it inspired a Neil Simon play. Frances Edelstein, who ran Cafe Edison with her husband, Harry, for 30 years, died in New Jersey this week at 92. The couple had run lunch counters…
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Fast Forward German Bookstore Trivializes Holocaust With ‘Abortion Will Set You Free’ Display
(JTA) – A Cologne politician has filed a lawsuit against a local Christian bookstore over a window display that compares abortion with the Holocaust. Specifically, the shop window of the Marienbuchhandlung book store features a photo of a cemetery in Wiesbaden under the title, “kindermord.org,” or “child-killer.org,” followed by “Abtreiben macht frei,” which translates to…
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