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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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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Fast Forward A Mosque Converted A Holocaust Survivor To Islam. Local Jews Are Skeptical.
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — On the national day of mourning for Holocaust victims in the Netherlands, a major mosque in the kingdom’s capital celebrated the conversion to Islam of a Jewish survivor of that genocide. At least, that’s what Amsterdam’s Blue Mosque said. According to its Facebook, 87-year-old Sal van Coeverden converted on May 4, the Dutch…
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Fast Forward Blood And Mud Poured On Netherlands Holocaust Monument
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Unidentified individuals poured blood and mud on a Holocaust monument in the Netherlands shortly after the country’s national day of mourning for its war victims. The blood was discovered shortly after the May 4 Memorial Day on the monument in Utrecht, 20 miles east of Amsterdam. It features the names of more than…
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