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 ‘A Thousand Kisses’ As Yad Vashem Spotlights Hopes Of Doomed Holocaust Victims
“Hope to see you in good health, a thousand kisses, mommy,” were the last words Betty’s mother wrote to her before being sent with her eight-week-old baby to their deaths at the Sobibor Nazi concentration camp in eastern Poland in 1943. Sitting at her home with a pastoral view from a hilltop town overlooking the…
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Community Will The Holocaust Be Remembered 100 Years From Now?
It’s been 73 years since the end of the Holocaust. Most survivors are no longer here. My generation, the second generation, is getting older. We are transitioning from short term to long term memory. Indeed, the test of memory is not how we recall soon after an event, but how it is recalled long, long…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Head Says World Has Failed To Prevent Atrocities In Syria
The chairman of Yad Vashhem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, said on Tuesday that international organizations established in response to World War II have failed in Syria, The Times Of Israel reported. Avner Shalev’s comment was in response to Saturday’s alleged chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Douma by President Bashar Assad’s regime. “We all…
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Fast Forward Clarence Thomas’ Wife Shares Post Blaming Holocaust On Gun Control
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shared a Facebook post blaming the Holocaust in part on gun control and attacking survivors of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The post was one of several identified by The Hill on Monday as posted by Virginia Thomas and registering strong disagreement…
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Fast Forward House To Introduce Bill That Would Fund Holocaust Education Programs
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bipartisan slate of House members is set to introduce a bill that would grant money to Holocaust education in schools. The Never Again Education Act would establish the Holocaust Education Assistance Program Fund in the U.S. Treasury. A 12-member board would disburse the money to schools. A draft of the bill,…
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Fast Forward Heirs To Holocaust Victim Awarded Ownership Of Paintings Stolen By Nazis
A judge awarded ownership of two paintings by Egon Schiele that were looted by Nazis to the descendants of their owner, the BBC reported. Judge Charles Ramos, in New York, gave ownership of the paintings to the the descendants of Fritz Grunbaum, a Jewish Austrian performer and playwright who died in the Dachau prison camp….
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News Author Who Wrote Poignant Farewell To Husband Honored With Room At Holocaust Museum
When author Amy Krouse Rosenthal died last year at the age of 51, she left a legacy of more than 30 books, as well as a widely-shared New York Times article that served as a dating profile for her spouse, titled “You May Want To Marry My Husband.” Beginning next week, her name will continue…
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Community We Should Use The Power Of ‘Never Again’ To End Gun Violence
On March 29, Forward columnist Bethany Mandel published an op-ed entitled Stop Using The Holocaust To Push Gun Control. In it, she discussed how invoking Holocaust imagery such as the “Never Again” slogan in the gun control debate is inappropriate. I understand her discomfort with using the Holocaust, a mass genocide that killed six million…
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