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 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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Fast Forward What Americans Had To Say About Jewish Refugees Fleeing the Nazis
They were called “so-called” refugees, told they were alien to American culture and warned against as potential enemies of the United States. This heated anti-refugee rhetoric in America was directed against Jews trying to flee Europe, not Mexicans or Syrians. Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the fear was of Nazi and Communist infiltrators sneaking…
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Community Like The Holocaust, Family Separation In The U.S. Will Scar Generations To Come
As a member of several second-generation Holocaust survivor groups, I’ve become used to posts evoking strong reactions. The most controversial posts quickly devolve into emotional debates about who is “more Jewish” or whether Jews who fled Germany and Poland before 1939 can be called Holocaust “survivors.” But I have never seen a more mean-spirited, divisive…
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Fast Forward Former CIA Chief Compares U.S. Immigration Policies To Nazi Germany
(JTA) — Former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency Michael Hayden compared the Trump administration’s immigration policies to Nazi Germany. In a tweet posted on Saturday, Hayden wrote: “Other governments have separated mothers and children,” under a black and white photo of the front of Auschwitz as seen from the railroad…
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Fast Forward New Jersey Man, 92, A Holocaust Survivor, Fulfills Dream Of Moving To Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 92-year-old New Jersey man fulfilled his dream of moving to Israel 71 years after he arrived in New York as a refugee from the Holocaust. Jack Nasielski, of Edison, arrived Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport on a Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah flight in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah & Integration, the Jewish Agency, Keren…
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Community Jews Cannot Accept The Administration’s Destruction Of Families
Since Memorial Day weekend we have been reading the stories in newspapers across the country about children being intentionally separated from their families at the U.S. border. Hundreds of children are being detained by U.S. authorities in conditions Senator Jeff Merkley has likened to “dog kennels.” According to NBC News, over 300 of these children…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis: ‘Never Forget The Shoah’
(JTA) — Pope Francis called on his emissaries and followers to never forget the Holocaust. “The memory of the Shoah and its atrocious violence must never be forgotten. It should be a constant warning for all of us of an obligation to reconciliation, of reciprocal comprehension and love toward our ‘elder brothers,’ the Jews,” the…
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Opinion Stop Comparing Immigrant Deportations To The Holocaust
The Trump administration’s treatment of asylum seekers and immigrant communities is filling many Americans with horror and dread. During the dark days of this administration, we are seeing immigrants who have built homes, businesses and lives in America have their legal status arbitrarily revoked by refusals to extend TPS. We are hearing the screams of…
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