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 Connecticut Legislature Passes Law Requiring High School Holocaust Education
(JTA) — Legislation that would require Holocaust and genocide education in Connecticut high schools starting with the coming school year unanimously passed the state legislature. The Connecticut House of Representatives on Monday voted 147-0 in favor of the bill. It had unanimously passed the Senate on April 24. The bill will now go to Democratic…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi Grandma’ Arrested After Failing To Show Up For Prison Sentence
(JTA) — The Holocaust denier known as the “Nazi Grandma” was arrested by German police days after she failed to appear at the prison where she was to start a two-year term for Holocaust denial. Ursula Haverbeck, 89, had been ordered to appear on April 23 at the prison in the town of Bielefeld after…
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Fast Forward Doomed Woman Wrote Letter Moments Before Being Murdered In Auschwitz. Now We Can Read It.
An Indianapolis man avoided for decades reading the letter his mother wrote moments before she entered an Auschwitz gas chamber — but now it is displayed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Frank Grunwald, 85, survived the Holocaust. His mother Vilma and his disabled brother had a different fate. Moments before…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi Grandma’ Fails To Show Up For Prison Sentence
(JTA) — A search is underway for the octogenarian known as the “Nazi Grandma,” after she did not show up for her prison sentence for Holocaust denial. Ursula Haverbeck, 89, was sentenced to two years in prison for incitement caused by public Holocaust denial. She was due to show up to the prison in the German…
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Fast Forward Abbas Apologizes ‘If People Were Offended’ By Speech Blaming Jews For Holocaust
(JTA) — Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas apologized to Jewish people offended by his recent speech in which he blamed the Holocaust on Jews. “If people were offended by my statement in front of the [Palestinian National Council], especially people of the Jewish faith, I apologize to them,” Abbas said in a statement sent Friday…
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Life A DNA Test Uncovers A Mother’s Secret Jewish — And Holocaust — Past
Have you taken an ancestry test and found something surprising about your past? Tell us about the discoveries about your Jewish past through genetic testing; email me at [email protected] with your story, and we may feature it. Laurie Nardone was raised in the coastal town of Westerley, Rhode Island — a proper New Englander, a…
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Fast Forward Dutch Cop Cites Israel In Demanding Removal Of Holocaust Memorial Sign
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A bookshop owner in the Dutch capital said that a police officer asked him to remove a sign commemorating Holocaust victims, citing Israel’s actions. Gert-Jan Jimmink told the De Telegraaf daily in a video published online Friday that the request was over a sign that read “Open Jewish Homes, Houses of Resistance.”…
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Culture A Rock Opera About The Holocaust? Yes, Really.
Jeremy Schonfeld didn’t exactly intend to create a multimedia rock opera about the Shoah and the emotional trauma it inflicted across generations. All he wanted to do was write an album in honor of his father, Gustav Schonfeld, a survivor of Auschwitz who passed away in 2011. Yet, according to Schonfeld, the result of this…
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