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 Auschwitz Tour Guide’s Home Vandalized With Jewish Star, ‘Poland For The Poles’
The home of a concentration camp tour guide was vandalized in Krakow on Friday with a Star of David and a Polish nationalist message, as public tensions increase over a new law banning certain language about the Holocaust. The Italian-born guide, Diego Audero Bottero, told Polsat Media that he found the star and the messages…
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Fast Forward Polish Group Sues Newspaper In First Test Of Controversial New Holocaust Law
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A right-wing Polish group sued a newspaper in Argentina under the country’s new Holocaust law for using a photo of Polish partisans to illustrate an article about the Jedwabne pogrom of 1941. The lawsuit was filed on Friday by the Polish League Against Defamation, or the Reduta Dobrego Imienia (RDI), hours…
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Music Jerusalem Concert Of Jewish Music From The Holocaust Will Honor 70th Anniversary Of Israel’s Founding
As part of the roster of celebrations planned in honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel, Jerusalem will in April play host to a concert of music written directly before and during the Holocaust. The concert by Israel’s Ashod Symphony Orchestra will mark the first time that several of those works will…
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News Poland Launches Charm Campaign To Defuse ‘Holocaust Law’ Tensions
Launching a last-minute damage control campaign, Polish officials have descended on Washington, trying to convince American officials, lawmakers and Jewish leaders that the uproar over Warsaw’s recent Holocaust law is no more than a “misunderstanding.” The law, which makes speaking of a “Polish Holocaust” a criminal offense, will take effect Thursday, although the country’s top…
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Fast Forward Polish Delegation Comes To Israel To Discuss Controversial Holocaust Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Polish delegation arrived in Israel to come to an understanding between the two countries on the controversial Holocaust law. The delegation will meet on Thursday with a team headed by the Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Yuval Rotem. Both delegations are made up of historians, journalists, lawyers and diplomats, the…
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Fast Forward Polish Firm Sells ‘Hitler Socks,’ Renames Them After Auschwitz Museum Complains
A Polish company is under fire for trying to sell socks that look like Adolf Hitler — and then trying to hide the evidence. Nanushki, a company that specializes in friendly-looking socks, offers the footwear on its website. The company originally claimed that the “Adolf” socks were designed “to bring order in the socks drawer,”…
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Fast Forward Simon Wiesenthal Center Mulls Travel Advisory To Jews Going To Poland
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights non-profit, is mulling posting a travel advisory for Jews going to Poland in the wake of an international controversy over a Holocaust rhetoric law, the Jewish Chronicle reported. “We would take such action with great reluctance. We are not enemies of Poland,” the group said in a statement….
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Fast Forward Polish Priest Says That Truth For Jews Is Whatever’s Beneficial To Them
(JTA) — Representatives of Polish Jews complained to the state watchdog on media over a public broadcaster’s airing of an interview with a priest who said Jews have a unique understanding of the concept of truth. Henryk Zielinski, editor-in-chief of the Catholic weekly Idziemy, said this on Feb. 24 during an interview with TVP, according…
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