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 In ‘Andor’ season 2, a Wannsee Conference reference, and a new sort of space Jew
The new season is not pulling punches with its Nazi analogies
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Film & TV Our preeminent historian of the Jews is finally ready to confront Auschwitz
In 'Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On,' the author and PBS host leads an intimate journey into the humanity and inhumanity of the Shoah
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Books From an Italian Holocaust survivor, a Kafkaesque nightmare of imprisonment under fascism
Set in the Lanciano internment camp, Maria Eisenstein's 'Internee Number 6' is a testament to the power of writing
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Yiddish World Children taking part in a Seder while hiding from the Nazis
In Zina Rabinowitz's tale, a teacher keeps the children's fear at bay by appealing to their imagination
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Fast Forward Holocaust remembrance pages removed in Pentagon’s DEI purge
Stories of Holocaust survivors were caught in the anti-DEI net, as was an article about Jewish “Golden Girls” star Bea Arthur
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Books Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
Matthew Goodman tells the true story of Kate Bonnefous and her Jewish friend Etta Shiber, who rescued Allied soldiers trapped in France under the Nazi occupation
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Film & TV Is ‘A Real Pain’ the Jewish Oscar film we’ve been waiting for?
The acclaimed film avoids the tropes and tragedies that have defined other Jewish Academy Award nominees
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Fast Forward Suspect in Berlin Holocaust memorial stabbing sought to kill Jews
The attack followed other recent Israel-related incidents in the German capital
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