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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Opinion You Don’t Need To Compare Family Separation To The Holocaust. America Has Its Own Ugly History
When I was in Orthodox high school, a teacher drew heartrending parallels between the Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto and the forcible internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. She did not equate these two tragedies; it was a lesson in how despite the fact that America may have been rightly celebrated for its…
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Yiddish World A Missed Opportunity For Holocaust Survivors Like Me
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As a Holocaust survivor, I admit that I’m often drawn to Holocaust commemorations and other gatherings of Holocaust survivors, just to get a glimpse of how these affairs are conducted. So when I heard about Cafe Europa, I thought it might be a good idea to go….
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Opinion Family Separation Isn’t The Holocaust. But It’s Evil Enough To Warrant The Comparison
“Other governments have separated mothers and children,” the former CIA director Michael Hayden wrote above a black-and-white photograph of the railways tracks leading toward the entrance of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Hayden is perhaps the most high-profile but by no means the only person in recent days to have reached for the Holocaust in order to condemn the…
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Fast Forward Hidden Children Of Holocaust Open Up About ‘Unconscionable’ Family Separation
The Anti-Defamation League has issued a statement on behalf of a group of hidden children of the Holocaust, who felt compelled to respond to the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents. In a video, Rachelle Goldstein, co-director of the Hidden Child Foundation, a New York-based organization which represents Jewish Holocaust survivors hidden…
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Life A Holocaust Survivor Inspires The Ex-Incarcerated
Earlier this month, Hedy Pagremansky, a radiant 4’9” woman of 89, spoke on the 73rd anniversary of her late husband Erich’s liberation from Dachau. It was not the usual Holocaust memorial ceremony — but a gathering of some fifty formerly incarcerated men and women, who probably have a thousand years of prison time between them….
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Opinion Yes, You Should Be Comparing Trump to Hitler
For those of us who thought the Trump administration had lost its power to shock us, this week has been a rude awakening. From images of caged migrant children sleeping under space blankets to parents facing deportation proceedings alone, the federal government’s forcible separation of families at the border has shocked Americans’ consciences in a…
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Fast Forward Sessions: We’re Not Like The Nazis Because They Tried To Keep Jews From Leaving
Attorney General Jeff Sessions criticized the growing number of public comparisons between the Trump administration’s new immigration policies and Nazi Germany, saying that such claims are not true because the Nazis were “keeping the Jews from leaving the country.” More than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at border crossings and placed in…
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Fast Forward Call For Census Of Gypsies In Italy Recalls Pre-Holocaust Anti-Semitic Laws
ROME (JTA)— Italy’s Jewish community condemned a call by the country’s hardline interior minister to take a census of Italy’s Roma, or Gypsy, population. The Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, said in a statement issued Tuesday that the call by Matteo Salvini to create a “registry” of Roma in Italy recalled the anti-Semitic…
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