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 Ex-Beauty Queen Probed For Holocaust Denial
German police are investigating an Australian-born British former beauty queen for suspected incitement after she denied the Holocaust during a far-right protest in the city of Dresden on Saturday. A spokeswoman for Dresden police says Michele Renouf was one of two people being investigated for remarks made at the neo-Nazi rally commemorating those killed in…
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Fast Forward Polish PM Backtracks After Claiming Holocaust Had ‘Jewish Perpetrators’
(JTA) — The Polish prime minister’s comments that there were “Jewish perpetrators” in the Holocaust was “a sincere call for open discussion of crimes committed against Jews during the Holocaust, regardless of the nationality of those involved in each crime,” the government said in a clarification. The clarification statement was issued on Sunday morning, hours…
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Fast Forward Polish Embassy In Israel Vandalized With Swastikas As Shoah Law Fallout Grows
JERUSALEM/WARSAW, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Swastikas and profanities were daubed on the entrance to Poland’s embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles and others, were among perpetrators of the Nazi Holocaust. Poland sparked international criticism over its stance on the facts of the Holocaust when…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Had ‘Jewish Perpetrators,’ Poland PM Says When Defending New Law
(JTA) — In defending a controversial law limiting rhetoric on the Holocaust, Poland’s prime minister again angered Israeli politicians by saying that the genocide had ”Jewish perpetrators.” Mateusz Morawiecki said this Saturday at the Munich Security Conference during an interview with Ronen Bergman, an Israeli journalist, in which he spoke about the law passed earlier…
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Community George Washington Would Not Be Impressed With Poland’s Revisionist Holocaust Bill
Polish President Andrzej Duda recently signed a law that would ban people from using terms like “Polish death camps”or blaming the Polish nation for complicity in the Holocaust. While Auschwitz and other death camps in Poland were obviously built and operated by the Nazis, the law is still extremely troubling. Countless Poles did participate in…
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Fast Forward France Returns Paintings To Heirs Of Jewish Couple Who Fled Nazis
(JTA) — The French government returned three paintings to the heirs of a Jewish couple who sold them under duress as they fled the Nazis. The 16th-century oil paintings by the Flemish master Joachim Patinir were handed over Monday in Paris to the descendants of Herta and Henry Bromberg at the Louvre Museum by French…
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Life They Met In A Concentration Camp. Now, They’re Celebrating 72 Years Of Marriage.
They met in the Vichy-run Gurs concentration camp, in southwestern France. It was the winter of 1940. She was 16, he was 19. “There were many artists imprisoned in Gurs,” Hanne Liebmann reflects today, in her Queens home. “We had a cultural life there, despite the circumstances. They would organize concerts.” Hanne Hirsch had been…
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Fast Forward Congressman Pressed To Admit State Of The Union Guest Is A Holocaust Denier
(JTA) — The Republican Jewish Coalition called on Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to acknowledge that his guest at the State of the Union speech is a Holocaust denier. In a BuzzFeed News profile of Gaetz, the Republican congressman said that “Chuck Johnson is not a Holocaust denier and he’s not an anti-Semite. He’s a provoker,…
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