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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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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Community In Eastern Europe, Revisionist Holocaust Bills And Anti-Semitism Go Hand In Hand
Poland’s brazen decision to pass a law protecting Holocaust denial should come as no surprise. Three years ago, the international community was largely silent when the government of Ukraine passed similar legislation. Today, we’re witnessing the fruits of that silence. In 2015, Kiev ratified memory laws which made two WWII-era paramilitaries — the Organization of…
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Fast Forward This Photographer Helped Save Anne Frank’s House From Demolition
Following the devastation of World War II, photographer Maria Austria captured the ruins of Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter. Some of her most viewed photographs, which captured the hiding place of Anne Frank, saved the house from demolition. The pictures are now subject of an exhibition at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. Born in 1915, Austria…
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Fast Forward Angela Merkel Dodged Question On Poland’s Controversial Holocaust Bill
German Prime Minister Angela Merkel declined to comment on Saturday on Poland’s controversial bill that criminalizes statements attributing any fault for the Holocaust to Polish people or the Polish state, the Irish Times reported. “Without directly interfering in the legislation in Poland, I would like to say the following very clearly as German chancellor: We…
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Fast Forward Johnny Weir Said He Was In The Holocaust In A Past Life
Johnny Weir, the former Olympic figure skater and current NBC color commentator, is known for his flashy outfits and willingness to speak his mind on nearly every subject. Such was the case in 2006, when he told The Washington Post that he considers himself “a little bit” Jewish — even though he was raised Roman…
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