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 Gun Violence Protest at U.S. Capitol Inspired By Holocaust Memorial
Thousands of shoes were placed on the lawn of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday morning as part of a protest against school shootings. The display of worn shoes, which were intended to draw Congress’ attention to children who have died from gun violence, was inspired in part by memorials to the Holocaust,…
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Fast Forward To Combat Anti-Semitism, Mandatory Concentration Camp Visits For German Students
In response to an uptick in anti-Semitic incidents in Germany, a German lawmaker has proposed making visits to concentration camps mandatory for all students, the New York Times proposed. The idea was proposed by Sawsan Chebli, a German state legislator who is descended from Palestinians. “This is about who we are as a country,” Chebli…
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Fast Forward ‘Bookkeeper Of Auschwitz’ Dies Before Starting Prison Sentence
The man known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” who in 2015 became one of the last people to be convicted for crimes in the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews during World War Two, has died aged 96, magazine Der Spiegel reported on Monday. Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years for his role as an…
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Opinion Do Not Stand Idly By: The Holocaust Lesson Poland Hasn’t Yet Learned
Only a few years ago it seemed that the fraught narrative of Poland and its Jews was evolving from uneasy suspicion to tentative embrace. The 2014 opening of the core exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, was the joyful epitome of this developing story; lauded by politicians and celebrated…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Has Bar Mitzvah To Remember Slain Family — At 83
(JTA) — An 83-year-old Holocaust survivor living in northern Israel celebrated at a Safed synagogue his bar mitzah ceremony 70 years after its die moment. A few dozen friends and family, as well as Safed’s police commissioner, accompanied Hanoch Shachar to a local synagogue where many of them sang and danced with him before he…
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Fast Forward Montrealers Wear Yellow Badges To Protest Jewish School Buses
A group of Montreal citizens is using square yellow badges to protest the presence of private Jewish school buses in their neighborhood, sparking outrage in the city, the Times-Colonist reported. Ginette Chartre, a representative for the protesting Montrealers, refused to stop wearing the badges even after being told they evoked the yellow stars the Nazis…
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Fast Forward Aung San Suu Kyi Stripped Of Holocaust Museum Prize
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has stripped Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of its prestigious human rights award named for Elie Wiesel over Aun San Suu Kyi’s silence in the face of Myanmar’s “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya Muslim minority, the New York Times reported. Aung San Suu Kyi, the political leader of Myanmar, was…
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Fast Forward Polish President Not Welcome At White House Over Holocaust Law
(JTA) — A leading news site in Poland reported that it had obtained documents suggesting that the country’s highest officials are not welcome at the White House over a law limiting discourse on World War II. The documents, which the news site Onet did not describe in its March 5 report, mean that President Andrzej…
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