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 I Survived The Holocaust As A ‘Hidden Child’—Thanks to the Mercy Of Strangers
My Kir Royale is fabulous, and so is my company: Evelyne and Jean Pierre Grosfils, and my granddaughter Naomi. We are dining at Yume — a word which means “dream” in Japanese, but in this case refers to the name of an elegant Asian fusion restaurant in Brussels. This is no ordinary dinner, or even…
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Opinion An Honorary Doctorate Breathes Hope Into Polish-Jewish Relations
The honorary doctorate being awarded this week by Krakow’s Jagiellonian University to San Francisco-based philanthropist Tad Taube is noteworthy for two reasons. One speaks to Poland’s recent history, the other to the present political moment. No one has done more during the last 30 years to repair the anguished relationship between Poland and the Jewish…
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Community George Soros Is Not — And Has Never Been — A Nazi
The occupation of Hungary by the Nazis began by invitation in 1944. In his masterwork “Night,” set in his hometown of Sighet, Hungary (now Romania), Elie Wiesel wrote of Moshe the Beadle, who secretly mentored the young Wiesel in the Jewish mystical writings of the Zohar until Moshe was deported on cattle trains from the…
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Culture WATCH: How The Jews Of The Vilna Ghetto Saved Precious Books From Nazis
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. A group of several dozen Jewish intellectuals known as the Paper Brigade risked their lives to save thousands of books and documents from destruction during the Holocaust by hiding them in the Vilna ghetto. The Yiddish Forward spoke with Dr. David Fishman, author of the recent book…
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Fast Forward Doomed Parkland Student Answered This Holocaust History Question — Right Before Shooting Started
In Room 1214 of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Ivy Schamis had divided up her class on the history of the Holocaust into small groups to make presentations for the group on February 14. Moments before the gunfire began, she turned to them and asked, “Does anyone know who Adi Dassler is?” Nicholas Dworet, 17,…
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Opinion Zeev Porath Chronicled Nazi Rapists And Other Atrocities – In His Drawings
Sometime in 1943, a 35-year-old architect sat at a drafting desk on the third floor of the headquarters building in the infamous Janowska concentration camp in Lviv in what is now Ukraine. Over 80,000 Jews were murdered at this camp and it served as the main deportation center for 160,000 Jews of Lviv (a number…
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Fast Forward More White Nationalists Are Running For Office Than Ever Before
At least eight white nationalists are running for state or federal office, according to The Southern Poverty Law Center. Anti-hate groups have reported that this is more than in any other election in modern history. MSNBC’s Morgan Radford spoke with white nationalists who are running for federal office this year on the Republican ticket. Many…
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Fast Forward Roseanne’s Tweet Insulted All Holocaust Survivors, Says Soros’s Son
Roseanne Barr’s racist Twitter outburst on Tuesday, which led to her hit show being cancelled by ABC, was also criticized by the son of George Soros, the Jewish billionaire financier whom Barr claimed in her rant to have collaborated with the Nazis. “Because of his lifelong dedication to human rights and social justice, my father…
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