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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Opinion It’s Time For A Holocaust #MeToo Reckoning
Over the past few months, more and more women have been opening up about horrible stories of sexual harassment, assault and abuse. The #MeToo movement is a long overdue corrective to our culture. And yet the stories of one group of women have yet to crest into the mainstream and get the recognition they deserve:…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Denier Will Be GOP Nominee In Illinois Congressional Race
An anti-Semitic white supremacist and Holocaust denier will almost definitely be the Republican nominee for a congressional race in a district encompassing parts of Chicago and its suburbs. Arthur Jones, a 70-year-old retired insurance agent and perennial losing candidate in races in Illinois and Wisconsin dating back to the 1970s, was the only person to…
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Fast Forward Why Did This Congressman Give A Holocaust Denier A State Of The Union Ticket?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Republican congressman says he gave Chuck Johnson, a notorious right-wing troll who once denied the Holocaust, a ticket to the State of the Union because he seemed polite. Johnson has been banned from numerous platforms for his online “trolling,” or harassing those with whom he disagrees. He has said he believes…
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Fast Forward German Foreign Minister: We Were Responsible For The Holocaust, Not Poland
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Germany was responsible for the Holocaust, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on the heels of Polish legislation that seeks to distance the country from Nazi atrocities. “Poland can be sure that any form of falsification of history, like the term ‘Polish concentration camps,’ will be unequivocally rejected and strongly condemned by…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Chief Rabbi Wants ‘March Of The Living’ Moved There To Punish Poland
(JTA) — A chief rabbi of Ukraine called on the Israeli government to suspend school trips to Poland and have them in his country because of Warsaw’s new bill on Nazi crimes. Rabbi Moshe Azman made the suggestion in a letter he sent to Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday, a day after the Polish…
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Fast Forward At This Jewish Camp, A 95-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Teaches Kids Yiddish
(JTA) HOPEWELL JUNCTION, N.Y. (JTA) — The kids at Camp Kinder Ring mostly do what kids do at any Jewish summer camp. They hang out by the lake, play sports, goof off, find discreet places to, um, go on walks. But for an hour each day, groups of Jewish adolescents here eagerly do what few…
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Culture In Two Films, Opposite Sides Of The Holocaust’s Intergenerational Trauma
In the opening shots of Chantal Akerman’s 1980 film “Dis Moi” (or “Tell Me”), the director shows herself unhurriedly traversing the streets of Paris. Set against these disarmingly low-key images, we hear a conversation between the director and her mother, Natalia, or Nelly, who lost her own mother – Chantal’s grandmother – in the Holocaust….
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Fast Forward Budapest Statue Honors Holocaust Survivor Congressman Lantos
A statue unveiled in Budapest this week honors Rep. Tom Lantos, a Hungarian-born Jew who was imprisoned in a forced labor camp during the Second World War. “Tom Lantos called on all of us — not just those in government service, but all citizens, all human beings — to show courage in the face of…
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