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 Poland’s PM Said Jews Partnered With Nazis. Scholars Say He Distorted History.
(JTA) — The row between Poland and Israel about the Holocaust reached new heights this week after Poland’s prime minister said that the genocide had not only Polish, Ukrainian and German perpetrators, but Jewish ones as well. Addressing a new law that criminalizes blaming Poland for Nazi crimes, Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview Saturday…
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Fast Forward Stumbling Stone Holocaust Memorial Stolen In Northwest Italy
ROME (JTA) – Italian police are investigating the theft of a “stumbling stone” Holocaust memorial to an Auschwitz victim. The memorial, a gold-colored cobblestone-sized monument embedded in sidewalk, was stolen last week just a month after it was placed in Collegno, a suburb of Turin in northwest Italy. Collegno Mayor Francesco Casciano called the theft…
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Fast Forward Ruderman Foundation Urges US To Suspend Ties With Poland Over Holocaust Law
(JTA) – The Ruderman Family Foundation, an American Jewish philanthropic organization, launched a campaign urging the United States to suspend its ties with Poland over that country’s law on rhetoric about the Holocaust. The campaign includes a petition for suspension hosted on the NeverDeny.org website and a professionally produced video message. It shows men, women…
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Fast Forward Georgia 5th Grader Leads ‘Butterfly Project’ To Honor Child Holocaust Victims
Fifth-grader Rose Calvillo has a goal to commemorate the 1.5 million children who died during the Holocaust. She wants to see 1.5 million handmade butterflies decorating the walls of her Elementary School in Dalton, Georgia. Calvillo and her classmates are learning about World War II and the Holocaust. “It’s important that we remember the Holocaust,…
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Fast Forward Ex-Beauty Queen Probed For Holocaust Denial
German police are investigating an Australian-born British former beauty queen for suspected incitement after she denied the Holocaust during a far-right protest in the city of Dresden on Saturday. A spokeswoman for Dresden police says Michele Renouf was one of two people being investigated for remarks made at the neo-Nazi rally commemorating those killed in…
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Fast Forward Polish PM Backtracks After Claiming Holocaust Had ‘Jewish Perpetrators’
(JTA) — The Polish prime minister’s comments that there were “Jewish perpetrators” in the Holocaust was “a sincere call for open discussion of crimes committed against Jews during the Holocaust, regardless of the nationality of those involved in each crime,” the government said in a clarification. The clarification statement was issued on Sunday morning, hours…
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Fast Forward Polish Embassy In Israel Vandalized With Swastikas As Shoah Law Fallout Grows
JERUSALEM/WARSAW, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Swastikas and profanities were daubed on the entrance to Poland’s embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles and others, were among perpetrators of the Nazi Holocaust. Poland sparked international criticism over its stance on the facts of the Holocaust when…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Had ‘Jewish Perpetrators,’ Poland PM Says When Defending New Law
(JTA) — In defending a controversial law limiting rhetoric on the Holocaust, Poland’s prime minister again angered Israeli politicians by saying that the genocide had ”Jewish perpetrators.” Mateusz Morawiecki said this Saturday at the Munich Security Conference during an interview with Ronen Bergman, an Israeli journalist, in which he spoke about the law passed earlier…
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