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 Dutch Politician Who Saved Hundreds Of Children During Holocaust Dies At 107
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Johan van Hulst, a Dutch politician who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, has died at the age of 107. Van Hulst and resistance activists smuggled the children to safety over several months. He was the director of a Protestant religious seminary in Amsterdam with a yard that bordered on…
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Fast Forward Slain Holocaust Survivor Was Targeted For Being Jewish, French Police Say
(JTA) — Prosecutors investigating the slaying of a Holocaust survivor in Paris said the two suspects in custody targeted her because she was Jewish. The development in the investigation of the March 23 slaying of Mirelle Kanol came with the arrest of two men on Monday, Le Figaro reported, citing a police source. “The supposed…
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Fast Forward Poland Creates New Holiday To Remember Poles Who Saved Jews During WWII
(JTA) — Poland observed a new national holiday to remember Poles who saved Jews during World War II. President Andrzej Duda initiated the National Remembrance Day for Poles Who Saved Jews earlier this month. It was observed on Saturday, March 24. On March 24, 1944, the Germans murdered the Ulma family – Józef, Wiktoria, and…
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Fast Forward Law On Holocaust Rhetoric Unconstitutional, Polish Attorney General Says
(JTA) — The Polish attorney general’s office described as partly unconstitutional a law passed last month that criminalizes blaming Poland for Nazi crimes. Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro published a statement on the law Thursday. The legislation, which came into force earlier this month, imposes fines or up to three years in jail on anyone who…
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Community Germany Paid My Late Father Holocaust Reparations — And Now They Want 410 Euros Back
Dear Gertrud F: I received your official-looking letter just the other day. I could tell immediately its origin was from a foreign land: an evocative, welcome throwback to the tactile pre-Web era, when missives would arrive from beyond our shores bearing exotic-looking stamps, redolent of faraway places. All rendered basically obsolete, of course, by the…
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Fast Forward Father Of Polish Prime Minister: Jews Gladly Moved To Ghettos
(JTA) — A former Polish politician who is the father of the country’s prime minister said that Jews during the Holocaust moved to ghettos of their own accord to get away from non-Jewish Poles. Kornel Morawiecki, a former senator whose son, Mateusz, became prime minister last year, made the remark in an interview published Tuesday by the online magazine…
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Fast Forward Top Polish Diplomat Vows To Remove ‘Polish Police’ Text From Yad Vashem
(JTA) — A top Polish diplomat vowed to “intervene” in having text removed from the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Israel that speaks of “Polish police” under Nazi occupation. Jan Dziedziczak, the deputy director of the Polish Foreign Ministry, complained about the text in an interview on Thursday while on a visit in Israel, Radio…
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Fast Forward Polish Senate Approves Day Honoring ‘Righteous Gentiles’
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Polish Senate approved a resolution making March 24 the National Remembrance Day for Poles Who Saved Jews. Polish President Andrzej Duda initiated the new national holiday. The resolution approved on Wednesday was supported by 58 senators, including 51 from the ruling Law and Justice party. Some 14 senators voted against the…
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