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 Mike Pence’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Tweet Stirs Outrage
A tweet sent by Vice President Mike Pence on International Holocaust Remembrance Day was sharply criticized by some for its perceived Christian imagery. A few days ago, Karen & I paid our respects at Yad Vashem to honor the 6 million Jewish martyrs of the Holocaust who 3 years after walking beneath the shadow of…
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Fast Forward Israel Appalled Over Poland Effort To Criminalize The Term ‘Polish Death Camps’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protested a bill passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament which would make it illegal to use terms such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the camps set up by the Nazis. “The law is baseless; I strongly oppose it” Netanyahu said in a…
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Fast Forward Yair Lapid Fights With Poland Embassy Over ‘Polish Death Camps’ Bill
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli politicians condemned a bill passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament which would make it illegal to use terms such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the camps set up by the Nazis. Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid Party, wrote on Facebook that “Poland was complicit in…
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Fast Forward Man Arrested For Shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ At Concentration Camp Visitors
(JTA) — A man shouted “Heil Hitler” and made the Nazi salute at a rabbi and his grandson, who were visiting the former concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria. The man also shouted “Mein Volk, Mein Reich, mein Fuhrer,” the motto of the Nazi regime, during Friday’s incident, the AFP news agency reported. The man was…
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Fast Forward 1/3 Of American Holocaust Survivors Live In Poverty, Aid Group Says
(JTA) — One-third of Holocaust survivors in the United States continue to live at or below the poverty line, according to an aid organization. The Blue Card, which provides financial assistance to survivors, reported the statistic ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday. Last year, the same proportion of survivors were at or below…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Statement Mentioned Jews, Unlike Last Year
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a message marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Trump called the Holocaust the “systematic persecution and brutal murder of six million Jewish people” — a marked departure from last year, when his message omitted any reference to Jews. “Tomorrow marks the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi death…
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Fast Forward Super Bowl Tourists Will See Holocaust Photo Exhibit At Minneapolis Airport
(JTA) — If you’re going to Minneapolis to see the Super Bowl, you’ll also be viewing photos of Holocaust survivors at the airport. That’s the idea behind “Transfer of Memory,” a traveling exhibit of photos of Holocaust survivors, mostly from the Twin Cities, that is being shown at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. The exhibit has been…
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Fast Forward Melania Trump Tours D.C. Holocaust Museum Ahead Of Remembrance Day
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Melania Trump toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a year after husband President Trump stirred controversy by releasing a statement on the day that did not mention Jews. “My thoughts and prayers are with the people whose lives and families were broken by the horrors of…
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