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 Hitler’s Secret Weapon Was Silence
Silence is complicity. Hearing those words recently, it felt like an echo from a time long ago and far away. A time when people were afraid to speak up, afraid to rock the boat, afraid to be singled out. Eighty years ago, as we recall today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Europe was in the…
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Israel News Holocaust Survivors Debate: Is It Okay To Compare African Migrants To Jews Under Nazis?
As the battle wages over the intention of Israel’s government to expel thousands of African migrants who entered the country through its southern border, Holocaust survivors are speaking up against the move and, at times, are being criticized for doing so. Do survivors of the Jewish genocide who had faced the struggle of seeking asylum…
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Fast Forward What Role Did Finland Play In The Holocaust?
(JTA) — Finland will investigate evidence suggesting that soldiers of its army were involved in killing Jews during the Holocaust, the office of Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said. The announcement about the initiation of the probe, the first of its kind in Finland, came Wednesday in a letter to Efraim Zuroff, a hunter of Nazis for…
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Fast Forward Major Hungarian Pol Will Honor Nazi Collaborator On International Holocaust Day
(JTA) — Churchgoers in Budapest said a senior lawmaker will attend a ceremony honoring the Nazi collaborator Miklos Horthy that they are organizing on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The KESZ group, a Christian organization, said this in an invitation for the Jan. 27 event at Budapest’s Main Parish Church of the Assumption, noting it will…
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Community All Of Europe Was Complicit In The Holocaust
In the build-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2018, people will line up to say that we must never forget. But the world has long forgotten. In fact, the world never really remembered. Denial is not peripheral; it is rife. There is firstly outright denial, the received wisdom in many parts of…
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News Did The Nazis Make Jews Wear Shoes With Torah Insoles? A Trump Official Says So.
Updated 6:00 p.m Anti-abortion activists often compare abortion to the Holocaust, claiming aborted fetuses are like Jews murdered by the Nazis. Jewish groups denounce these analogies regularly. Now, a Trump administration official has gone further, bringing footwear into the discussion. The occasion was the launch of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at the Department…
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Community This Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Must Replace Numbers With Names
In Jewish teachings we learn, “from generation unto generation we shall remember.” We Jews are blessed with a long memory. It is precisely our memory that today acts as the “canary in the coal mine” against the evil of mankind. It is this memory that has led Jews and Jewish organizations to be that canary…
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Fast Forward French Comedian Makes Holocaust Joke On Prime-Time Broadcast
(JTA) — A public broadcaster in France is being criticized for airing a Belgian comedienne’s joke about the Holocaust. France 2 aired the joke by Laura Laune, 31, on Friday in its 8 p.m. news journal. A winner of the 2017 season of the French counterpart of the America’s Got Talent show, she was seen…
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