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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Film & TV The Hollywood Directors Who Filmed Concentration Camp Liberations
Three iconic Hollywood directors — John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller — may have created their most important work for the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services during World War II. As a new temporary exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) reveals, the filmmakers documented conditions in newly liberated Nazi…
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Fast Forward German Figure Skater Pummeled On Twitter For Using ‘Schindler’s List’ Song
Nicole Schott, a German figure skater, was roundly criticized on Twitter for skating to a song from the score of the famous Holocaust movie “Schindler’s List,” the New York Daily News reported. Dozens of tweets about the performance quickly put the movie’s title on Twitter’s list of trending topics When you realize a German ice…
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Fast Forward Polish Senator Suspended For Nazi Propaganda Video — Set To Klezmer Music
(JTA) — Poland’s ruling party suspended a senator who posted online footage from a Nazi propaganda movie depicting violence against Jews to the sounds of klezmer music. The Law and Justice party suspended Waldemar Bonkowski Thursday over his posting of the video on Facebook earlier this week, amid an acrimonious argument between many Poles and…
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Fast Forward Swedish ‘Laser Man’ Given Second Life Sentence Over Holocaust Survivor Murder
A Swedish man who has already served two decades of a life sentence in Sweden for racially motivated killings was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for murdering a Holocaust survivor, the Telegraph reported. John Ausonius, also known as “laser man” for the laser telescope he used in his sniper shootings, was sentenced to life…
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Fast Forward Civil Rights Think Tank To Sue Google Over Holocaust Denial Content
A civil rights think tank has threatened to sue Google, Twitter and Yahoo for hosting content that denies the Holocaust, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Brooke Goldstein, director of the Lawfare Project, said she sent cease-and-desist letters to Google and Yahoo urging them to take down any links to content that spreads misinformation or encourages skepticism…
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Opinion Is Hating Poles The New Bigotry Of the Day?
Tensions between Jews and Poles are at an all time high over a new Polish law that would would make it illegal — and punishable by up to three years in prison — to say that the Polish government or nation took part in the Holocaust. Diaspora Jews and Israelis alike have been quick to…
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Fast Forward Unearthed Letter From Einstein Thanked American Who Helped Jews Flee Nazis
Nearly 80 years after it was penned, a letter written by Albert Einstein thanking an American Jew for his efforts to rescue Jews from Nazi Germany has been revealed. Einstein sent the note to New York financier David Finck on June 10, 1939. The two men never met, but Finck attracted Einstein’s attention after he…
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The Schmooze Isla Fisher Wins ‘Funniest Poland Holocaust Bill Protest,’ By Going Skiing
Human charm-machine Isla Fisher, star of “Wedding Crashers” and spouse of Sacha Baron Cohen, is icing out the Polish government over the nation’s controversial new Holocaust bill. The bill, which passed on Thursday in the Polish senate, would make it illegal to blame any Polish people for any crimes related to the Holocaust. Fisher, an…
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