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 Holocaust Survivors Demonstrate In Front Of Polish Embassy Over New Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Dozens of Israeli Holocaust survivors demonstrated outside the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv to protest a new law in Poland that outlaws blaming the country for Nazi crimes. On Thursday, the survivors entered the embassy compound and surrounded a diplomat’s vehicle waving signs and shouting slogans. They carried signs in Hebrew and…
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Fast Forward Illinois GOP Exploring ‘All Options’ To Get Rid Of Holocaust Denier Candidate
The Illinois Republican Party is exploring “all options” in its effort to thwart Arthur Jones, an anti-Semitic white supremacist and Holocaust denier who is running unopposed in the Republican primary for a Chicago-area congressional seat. “Going forward, the Illinois Republican Party will explore all options to oppose Mr. Jones’ candidacy — whether that be supporting…
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Fast Forward Polish President Signs Holocaust Language Bill, Drawing Rebuke From U.S.
(JTA) – Polish President Andrzej Duda signed and finalized a law limiting rhetoric about the Holocaust, leading to a rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The United States is “disappointed,” Tillerson said Tuesday, following Duda’s final approval of a law introduced on Jan. 26 in the Polish parliament. It prescribes up to six…
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Community Why Poland’s Holocaust Bill Will Backfire
Efforts to protect the good name of Poland by criminalizing speech are backfiring. Rather than leading to more accurate statements about responsibility for the Holocaust, the draft amendment is having the opposite effect. The very statements that the bill is intended to ban and punish are being stated and restated across the globe in ever…
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Fast Forward Polish President To Sign Holocaust Speech Bill, Send It To Judges For Review
(JTA) — Polish President Andrzej Duda said he would sign a controversial law limiting rhetoric on atrocities committed in his country during World War II, but added he would refer it for review by a constitutional court. The bill would make it illegal — and punishable by up to three years in prison — to…
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Fast Forward Poland Cancels Israeli Minister’s Visit After He Vowed To Tell ‘Truth’ About Holocaust
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Poland cancelled a scheduled visit by Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett, after he said he would use the opportunity to tell the Polish people the “truth” about Poland and the Holocaust. Bennett said that while in Poland he was “determined to say explicitly what history has already proved — the Polish nation…
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Opinion Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Grandfather Read The Forward In Yiddish. Pretty Cool.
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! The interview was over and we walked into a secure hallway adjacent to the large sanctuary at Adas Israel, the applause and cheers still echoing through the Washington synagogue. Secret service agents hovered…
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Fast Forward Germany Recognizes Algerian Jews As Holocaust Survivors
NEW YORK (JTA) — Close to 80 years after being persecuted by the Nazi-allied Vichy French government, some 25,000 elderly Algerian Jews are for the first time being recognized as Holocaust survivors by the German government. Algerian Jews had their French citizenship stripped by the Vichy government, which then ruled the area, in 1940. Nuremberg-like…
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